Philosophical Genres and Literary Forms
A Mildly Polemical Introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4375759 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Lavery (Wilfrid Laurier University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 171-189 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-2006-020 |
| OpenAlex | W2162617672 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
The essays collected in this special issue of Poetics Today examine philosophical genres with illustrations from important and representative texts. Since the inception of Western philosophy, myriad expository styles and literary forms have been used there with extraordinary subtlety in addressing the conceptual problems within the tradition. Aphorisms, dialogues, epistles, autobiographies, essays, systematic treatises, and commentaries- to name only some of the most obvious examples-should be familiar to both casual and serious readers. Philosophers have exercised a great deal of ingenuity in their experiments with these and other genres. Still, it is fair to say that the amount of scholarly research on philosophical genres is not commensurate with either the diversity of genres that have been used in the tradition or with the vast amount of research on other dimensions of these texts, including, for example, philological work on the provenance and integrity of source manuscripts, historical work on intellectual influences upon the authors, or analytical work on the logical cogency of individual arguments. In short, there has been little elucidation of the distinctive virtues and limitations implicit in the different genres. The present special issue draws critical attention to a representative sample of genres that have been used in different periods of the Western philosophical tradition. Most of this introduction will review what little scholarship there is on the formative role and hermeneutical demands of philosophical genres. This part of the introduction is polemical insofar as the account is ani
Art · Literature · Classical Philosophy and Thought · History · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
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