Literature, like the visual arts, posess its own characteristic philosophical problems. Literary theorists have discussed widely the nature of literature, while analytic ...more

Certain people pretend to tell us what birth and death are like: a mother, for instance, has her point of view about birth; a doctor, a religious, have their points of view ...more

Do the arts mean? Do all the arts mean? Do they all mean in the same way? Does an art work mean in the same way in which a street sign means? More importantly, do all art ...more

What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the european enlightenment it claims to reject? In Consequences of enlightenment, Anthony Cascardi ...more

The work of the great Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has been examined from a wide variety of literary and theoretical perspectives. None of the many studies of Bakhtin ...more

The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales...more