Dialectic and narrative / edited by Thomas R. Flynn and Dalia Judovitz.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-367) and index.

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Introduction -- I. Philosophy and Literature: Crossing Borders. 1. The Philosophy of Genre and the Genre of Philosophy / Louis Mackey -- 2. Helen and the Rape of Narrative: The Politics of Dissuasion / James I. Porter -- II. The Poetic and the Political: Martin Heidegger. 3. Two Faces of Heidegger / Graeme Nicholson -- 4. Repositioning Heidegger / Herman Rapaport -- 5. Stevens, Heidegger, and the Dialectics of Abstraction and Empathy in Poetic Language / Matthias Konzett -- 6. Acoustics: Heidegger and Nietzsche on Words and Music / Dennis J. Schmidt -- III. Contesting Modernities. 7. Modernity and Postmodernity / Fred Dallmayr -- 8. Secularization and the Disenchantment of the World / A.J. Cascardi -- 9. Modernity and the Misrepresentation of Representation / Stephen David Ross -- 10. Narrative, Dialectic, and Irony in Jameson and White / Candace D. Lang -- IV. Legitimacy and Truth. 11. Reflections on the Anthropocentric Limits of Scientific Realism: Blumenberg on Myth, Reason, and the Legitimacy of the Modern Age / David Ingram -- 12. Blumenberg's Third Way: Between Habermas and Gadamer / Robert M. Wallace -- 13. History, Art, and Truth: Wellmer's Critique of Adorno / Lambert Zuidervaart -- V. Narrative Fictions: Theaters of Danger. 14. Tragic Fiction of Identity and the Narrative Self / Dana Rudelic -- 15. Ethical Ellipsis in Narrative / Carol L. Bernstein -- 16. Dialectics of Experience: Brecht and the Theater of Danger David Halliburton -- VI. Beyond Dialectics: At the Limits of Formalization. 17. At the Limits of Formalization / Joseph Arsenault and Tony Brinkley -- 18. On Fate: Psychoanalysis and the Desire to Know / Charles Shepherdson.

Dialectic and narrative reflect the respective inclinations of philosophy and literature as disciplines that fix one another in a Sartrean gaze, admixing envy with suspicion. Ever since Plato and Aristotle distinguished scientific knowledge (episteme) from opinion (doxa) and valued demonstration through formal final causes over emplotment (mythos), the palm has been awarded to dialectic as the proper instrument of rational discourse, the arbiter of coherence, consistency, and ultimately of truth. The matter becomes more complicated when we recognize the various uses of the term "dialectic" in the tradition, some of which complement and even overlap the narrative domain. By confronting these concepts with one another, either de facto or ex professo, the following essays not only raise anew the ancient questions of the identities of philosophy and literature, but do so in the context of recent "postmodern" challenges to their relative autonomy. -- Back cover.

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