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.
This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.
Perspectives on Power
In this interdisciplinary collection, postgraduate researchers boldly explore power relations. Twenty-one articles spanning the arts and social sciences—from human rights to literature—reveal the many similarities that exist between these distinct disciplines.
Albert Camus’s The Stranger
This collection of critical essays by international experts examines Camus’s The Stranger from both philosophical and literary perspectives. Presenting the first known critical examination in English, this volume sheds new light on the classic novel.
Leading scholars from philosophy, psychology, and history cast new light on Sartre. This volume deliberately stresses a middle and final period of his work, exploring diverse topics and offering new insights on authenticity, freedom, and ethics.
Given that correctly understanding the nature of perception will help to shed light on many other central philosophical issues, this book discusses the idea that our perceptual experiences represent the world as being a certain way, and so have representational content.
This volume presents the state of the art of philosophical practice worldwide from the perspectives of leading philosophical practitioners, and demonstrates the breadth of philosophical practice and its various methodological directions..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.’
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.
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.
The Phenomenology of Movement and Rest
This book is a phenomenological exploration of wandering and dwelling in the works of V. S. Naipaul, W. G. Sebald, and T. G. Tranströmer. It is the first study of their common engagement with the existential themes of movement and rest, which testify to our primal human desires.
The Emergence of Discourses and Cultural Hegemony
Edward W. Said’s seminal text Orientalism disrupted how the Orient understands itself. This book focuses on his work, analyzing how the discourse of orientalism perpetrated the West’s cultural hegemony and the internal hegemony within the non-western world.
Northrop Frye’s Lectures
This collection provides a transcription of fifteen sets of notes taken by Northrop Frye’s students in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and is the only available extended record of the courses taught by the great Canadian literary critic and humanist.