Philosophy as Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8858090 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J D Marshall (0000-0001-5632-3528, University of Auckland, corresponding author), Jim Marshall (a Faculty of Education, The University of Auckland; and The School of Education, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 383-393 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2007.00356.x |
| OpenAlex | W2025548240 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 4 |
How best to introduce philosophical ideas? Is the best and only way by studying the history of philosophy and its rational arguments and discussions? But can literature, usually hived off from philosophy, be used instead and can this be as effective as rational argument? This paper explores these questions. First it considers a text which introduces philosophy through the analysis of literature, in particular James Joyce's ‘Araby’, arguing that the traditional analytic approach employed by the text, by concentrating on epistemology, obscures other philosophical insights offered by Joyce. It then turns to French philosophy and literature and suggests that Sartre, Beauvoir and Camus by ‘blurring’ the analytic distinction between philosophy and literature have much to offer to the grasping and understanding of philosophical ideas and principles
Analytic philosophy · Argument (complex analysis · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · Higher education · Philosophical methodology · Philosophical theory · Philosophy of computer science · Philosophy of education · Sociology · Western philosophy · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2018 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |