Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy

Language, Literature, and Ethical Theory

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by Gerald L. Bruns

Northwestern University Press

Due/Published June 1999, 280 pages, paper

ISBN 0810116758

A collection of essays that investigates the intersection of literature and philosophy, analyzing the emerging preferences for practice over theory, particulars over universals, events over structures, inhabitants over spectators, an ethics of responsibility over a morality of rules, and a desire for intimacy with the world instead of simply a disengages knowledege of it.

Includes writers and topics such as Stanley Cavell on Shakespeare, Arthur Danto on art, Donald Davidson on James Joyce, Martha Nussbaum on Henry James and Richard Rorty on the poetizing of culture.