The quarrel between poetry and philosophy : perspectives across the humanities / John Burns, Matthew Caleb Flamm, William Gahan, and Stephanie Quinn.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Origins of the Quarrel -- 2 Vergil and Broch in Worlds Upside Down: Living the Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy -- 3 Lessons, Lies, and Legacies: The Place of Poetry in Thomas More's Utopia and Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesy -- 4 La Malinche and the Noble Lie -- 5 Making and Discovering in Shakespeare's Sonnets -- 6 Vergil, Broch, and a "Place" for Art: Answering the Quarrel -- 7 Jorge Pimentel: Obfuscation for Clarity's Sake --8 Turning With Heidegger Towards Poetry -- Coda -- Index.

The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-philosopher Plato referred centuries ago in the Republic. The book presents eight chapters by four humanities scholars that historically contextualize and cross-interpret aspects of the quarrel in question. The authors share the view that although poets and philosophers continually quarrel, a harmonious union between the two groups is achievable in a manner promising application to a variety of contemporary cultural-political and aesthetic debates, all of which have implications for the current status of the humanities.

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