A Fred Will Reader samples writings from poetry to philosophy. Naming the world, Will says, is half the world. The other half is supplied by the reader. By reading each other globally, we can learn to reconstruct the broken totality of the human condition.
Race Theory and Literature
This volume explores the unique interplay between literature and racial theories from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Spanning diverse genres and traditions, it features reflections on authors such as Kafka, Kleist, Voltaire, and Coleridge.
Humanity at the Heart of Practice
Healthcare is humans caring for other humans. This book on ethical decision-making uses humanity as its organizing structure, exploring values and theoretical ethics to resolve complex dilemmas at the beginning and end of life, and in healthcare as a business.
Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung
Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung offers verbal “doings” where sentences show both complicity and dissonance. Through this tactical sequence, time and place emerge, capturing the era’s peculiar aroma in a text that remains open to its own immediate future.
The Language of Literature and its Meaning
Exploring how the language of literature and its meaning have been dealt with in both Indian and Western aesthetic thinking, Shrawan focuses on the intersections between the theories of vakrokti and Russian formalism, and those between dhvani and deconstruction.
The Ethical Work of Literature in a Post-Humanist World
This title examines the contention that, in an era where the relevance of the literary novel is compromised, the novel remains an important means of exploring and interrogating societies and culture. It does this through readings of a selection of Don DeLillo’s later novels.
McParland probes the relationship of modernist authors with the thought of their time. He considers how such writers participated in the intellectual spirit of their time and with the thought of philosophers like Henri Bergson, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Representing a study of literary concern with ontology throughout the twentieth century, this title consists of ten essays, each of which focuses on one or various writers’ absorption with the nature of man and his ‘being in this world.’
The Principle of Relations
This volume presents a new paradigm for the entirety of reality. The Principle of Relations is applied to all fields, from the universe and elementary particles to human relations, offering a platform to understand gravity, energy, cancer, poverty, and prosperity.
Auden, master of metre, remains a mystery. This book uses a revolutionary theory of poetic rhythm—placing rhythm before meaning—to unlock his formal art. It revives interest in Auden’s poetry and his urgent questions: What is poetry? What is its use?
To challenge Europe’s dominant aesthetics, 18th-century Britain forged a new ‘Northern’ identity. This book explores the roots of British Romanticism in a celebrated past of Celtic heroes, King Arthur, and the fantasy world of myth.
Ben-Messahel investigates the issues of space, culture and identity in recent Australian fiction. Applying Nicolas Bourriaud’s concept of the Radicant, she discusses the work of 15 authors to show that, in Australia, cultural belonging is still a difficult process.
Literature, Performance, and Somaesthetics
These essays view textual and extra-textual worlds as an intimate continuum. Drawing from philosophical somaesthetics and performance studies, they explore the agency of the embodied self, examining literary characters, canons, and reception on a physical, visceral level.
This volume contains papers from a conference marking the 60th anniversary of Colin Wilson’s famous book, The Outsider. Experts, scholars and fans gathered to present papers on topics ranging from Existentialism to the Occult and from H.P. Lovecraft to Jack the Ripper.
New Approaches to Human Dignity in the Context of Qur’ānic Anthropology
Gathering modern Muslim and non-Muslim approaches to human dignity, this text presents approaches to Islamic theological anthropology. It focuses on the specific ‘grammars’ of anthropological narratives regarding the Qur’ān itself and performative discourse interpretations.
Gupta brings forth the popular theories of Indian aesthetics and Indian poetics. Her text represents primarily a compilation of commentaries and criticism of works such as Natryashastra, Dhvanyavloka, and Abhinavbharati, and there is a full glossary for non-Sanskrit speakers.
This title presents recent findings and opens new vistas for research by mapping the potential interconnections of intertextuality and intersubjectivity across a range of fields. It incorporates various research foci and topoi across time and space.
The Modernist Impulse and a Contemporary Opus
This volume represents a study in the formation of a personal literary opus, and in theoretical reflections involved in understanding that opus. The opus is addressed by pieces of individual text and by a close pursuit of how the author is transformed into those pieces of text.
Understanding Mīmāṃsā
This text explains the extended meaning known as Vakyartha according to the Prabhakara school of Purva Mimamsa, the ancient Indian theory of meaning. It discusses Expectation, Merit and Juxtaposition, recognised as the causes of deriving the meanings of words and sentences.
Will explores polarities through a set of seventy mini-meditations on opposite states of moral and emotional life. He studies the operational energy at play, which is partly prayer or mantra and partly half-completed logical conundrum.
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