The Singular Events of Literature

The Philosophy of Literature offers an opportunity to consider the gap between the analytic and the continental traditions of aesthetics. In particular, Lamarque's survey fails to take account of the possibility that literature is an institution and a practice that challenges the conventions of instrumental rationality, a position held by a number of continental philosophers who have written on art. It also pays little attention to the reader's experience of the inventiveness of the literary work, preferring to represent the reading of literature as a matter of conventions confirmed. An alternative understanding of the literary work as an event that opens up new possibilities for the reader, put forward in the author's recent book, The Singularity of Literature, is sketched

Aesthetics · Analytic philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Continental philosophy · Economics · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Institution · Linguistics · Position (finance · Rationality · Reading (process · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications

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