Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction
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Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction

Redefining the Philosopher in Multi-cultural Contexts

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction

Redefining the Philosopher in Multi-cultural Contexts

About this book

A cross-cultural study that explores and redefines what philosophy, philosophizing, and philosophers are through the lens of literature. The academic discipline of philosophy may tell us, too rigidly, what a philosopher is or should be; but fictional narration often upholds the core conundrums of humankind in which philosophy germinates. This collection of essays explores whether a study of 'philosophers' at a planetary scale, or at least on a broad cross-cultural spectrum, can decouple philosophy from its academic aspect and lend it a more inclusive domain. Contributors to this volume play with three conceptual poles, making them interact with each other and get modified through this interaction: 'fiction', 'narrative' and 'philosopher'. How do these three terms get semantically modified and broadened in scope when we speak of the figures of philosophers in imaginative writing? How do these terms assume different connotations in different cultural contexts, interacting with the multiplicity of not just 'thought', but also the media and tools of 'thought'? Do we always think only rationally? Or do we also think with and through emotively powerful images, symbols and tropes? In the end, Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction insists on the need to 'de-elitize' and democratize the concept of a 'philosopher' by reflecting on the possibility of seeing a philosopher as one who sees things clearly, from any vantage point.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Notes on contributors
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: ‘Who’ is a philosopher? Philosophers in fiction Anway Mukhopadhyay, Saptarshi Mallick and Debashree Dattaray
  8. Part One The figure of the philosopher: Theorization, tropologization, interrogation
  9. Part Two Devoured by fiction: Philosopher figures’ journey from history to fiction
  10. Part Three ‘Philosopher’, defined anew: Gender, indigeneity, ordinariness and non-anthropocentrism
  11. Index
  12. Imprint