Philosophy as World Literature

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What does it mean for philosophy to be considered as a species of not just literature but world literature? The essays in this collection offer a complex and authoritative account of philosophy as world literature by exploring philosophy through the lens of the “worlding” of literature--that is, considering the ways in which philosophy is connected and reconnected through global literary networks that cross borders, mix stories, and speak in translation and dialect. Historically speaking, much of the most influential philosophy in the world, from Plato’s dialogues and Augustine’s confessions to Nietzsche’s aphorisms and Sartre’s plays, was a form of literature--as well as, by extension, a form of world literature. The story of philosophy back to its beginnings has always involved transnational considerations, even if the Anglo-American analytic movement in philosophy appeared to push it in the opposite direction. hilosophy as World Literature offers a variety of accounts of the ways in which the worlding of literature problematizes the national categorizing of philosophy and brings new meanings and challenges to the traditional topic of intersections between philosophy and literature. Cover Half title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Philosophy as World Literature: An Introduction Part I World, Worlding, Worldliness 1 The World, the Text, and Philosophy: Reflections on Translation 2 Plato as World Literature 3 Worlding Interpretation, or Fanon and the Poetics of Disalienation 4 Alluvia: The Palimpsest of African Memory Part II Migration and Difference 5 Feminism as World Literature 6 Astonishing Worlding: Montaigne and the New World 7 Literature of the World, Unite! 8 Transatlantic Thoreau: Henry S. Salt, Gandhi, and British Humanitarian Socialism Part III Philosophy, Religion, and the East 9 Nietzsche and World Iterature: Th e Eternal Recurrence of Dualism in Thus Spake Zarathustra 10 Asian Philosophy, National Literatures, and World Literature Anthologies 11 The Dharma of World Literature 12 Olive-Red in Orhan Pamuk and Anton Shammas: Deconstruction’s Eastward Dissemination Part IV Philosophy versus World Literature 13 Existentialism as World Literature: De Beauvoir, Heidegger, and Tolstoy 14 Jorge Luis Borges and Philosophy 15 Philosophy for the Masses: Haldeman-Julius, Durant, and The Story of Philosophy List of Contributors Index