Literature and Philosophy

Telling Tales of Nonsense
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-97585-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy. It investigates seemingly incomprehensible behaviors from the perspective of philosophy and expounds on love by using, among others, Darwinism, Marxism, Existentialism, Plato, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Barthes as tools of investigation. The author deconstructs some 20 literary texts and presents a work of literary criticism in which literary theories are blended with philosophical theories on the self.

A significant contribution, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, philosophy, philosophy of literature, modern fiction, modernism, and postmodernism.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castelli, Alberto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vi Acknowledgments xiii 1 Recalling metanarrative: Darwinism in literature 1 2 A love that kills: The Idiot 18 3 Philosophical and textual strands of Il deserto dei tartari 39 4 Shades of love in Love in the Time of Cholera 56 5 Camus, the absurd Meursault, and Alexandros Panagoulis 72 6 Prisoners of life: Dostoevsky’s hero and anti-hero 87 7 The bad faith of the nonexistent knight 101 8 Neo-platonic love in fictional obsession 120 Epilogue 138 Bibliography 141 Index 153

Über Autor(innen)

Alberto Castelli is a writer and a well-established scholar at Hainan University, China. He is known for his extensive work on modernism, postmodern dynamics, and cross-cultural studies. Some of his notable publications include Eros and Thanatos: Love across Civilizations (2023), Love, Beauty or Morality (Springer 2024), A Love for Nothingness, A Love for Death: The Metaphysics of Desire (2024), The Labyrinth of Love: A Tale of Latin American Romance (2024), and Romance in the Time of Modernism: A Literature of Silence (2024).