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All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write:  \nPermissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.  \nCascade Books  \nAn Imprint ofWipfand Stock Publishers 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3  \nEugene, OR 97401 [www.wipfandstock.com](www.wipfandstock.com)[ ](www.wipfandstock.com)ඉൺඉൾඋൻൺർ඄ ංඌൻඇ: 978-1-5326-4173-2  \nඁൺඋൽർඈඏൾඋ ංඌൻඇ: 978-1-5326-4174-9  \nൾൻඈඈ඄ ංඌൻඇ: 978-1-5326-4175-6  \nCataloguing-in-Publication data: Names: Verene, Donald Phillip, 1937–, author.  \nTitle: The philosophy of literature : four studies / Donald Phillip Verene.  \nDescription: Eugene, OR : Cascade Books, 2018 | Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nIdentifiers: ංඌൻඇ 978-1-5326-4173-2 (paperback) |ංඌൻඇ 978-1-5326-4174-9 (hardcover) | ංඌൻඇ 978-1- 5326-4175-6 (ebook)  \nSubjects: LCSH: Literature—Philosophy.  \nClassification: PN49 .V49 2018 (paperback) | PN49 .V49 (ebook)  \nManufactured in the U. S.A. 09/17/15  \nTable of Contents  \nTitle Page  \nPreface  \nIntroduction  \nChapter 1: The Ethics of Immortality of Borges’s El  \ninmortal  \nChapter 2: The Metaphysics of Finnegans Wake  \nChapter 3: The Politics of The People, Yes  \nChapter 4: The Phenomenology of The Ship of Fools  \nBibliography  \nIn memory of Samuel Moon 1922–2011  \nPoet and teacher of literature  \nat Knox College  \nAbove all, literature keeps language alive as our collective heritage. Umberto Eco, On Literature  \nThe sole advantage in possessing great works of literature lies in what they can help us to become.  \nGeorge Santayana, Three Philosophical Poets  \nPreface  \nW  \nords are the natural bodies of thought. The languages and literaturesin which the words live are the tongue and heart of the humanities.  \nSince the eighteenth century, philosophy has progressively attached itself to various fields of human knowledge and forms of culture. This conception of philosophy has resulted in a series of“philosophies of.” Modern philosophy contains formulations such as the philosophy of science, philosophy of history, and philosophy of religion, and broader designations, such as philosophy of nature, philosophy of human nature, and philosophy of culture. These “philosophies of” assume a transcendental standpoint, as found in the Kantian conception of critique; their aim is to make explicit the presuppositions, principles, and methods that account for the possibility of their subject matters.  \nThought of as one of these fields of “philosophies of,” the philosophy of literature considers the question of what literature is and the place it occupies in the imagination. In addition to this transcendental inquiry into literature as a subject matter, philosophy realizes that it itself is a kind of literature. Philosophy exists only in and through its use of words. Philosophy is a linguistic art. Through its words, philosophy attempts to take thought to what is ultimate—to the really real, to ontos on, and to the greatest good, summum bonum. This linguistic journey is the center of speculative philosophy, as distinct from critical philosophy. The selfsatisfaction of critical philosophy is disturbed by the speculative use of the mind’s eye to apprehend the divine, the transcendent realm of ideas. The Socratic question, unlike the transcendental method, seeks the unseen in the seen.  \nThe speculative imagination and the poetic imagination have a common origin in the mythic imagination, in the narratives from which all human culture arises. From the archetypal images in the primal myths come the words, customs, deeds, and laws of all the nations at war and in peace. The images are the original orientations from which the divine, civil, and natural orders emerge. 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