Screen LibraryPhilosophy and Oscar Wilde /
This book is the first collection of essays to discuss Oscar Wilde s love and vast knowledge of philosophy. Over the past few decades, Oscar Wilde scholars have become increasingly aware of Wilde s love and intimate knowledge of philosophy. Wilde s Oxford Notebooks and his soon-to-be-published Noteb...
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Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57958-4 |
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This book is the first collection of essays to discuss Oscar Wilde s love and vast knowledge of philosophy. Over the past few decades, Oscar Wilde scholars have become increasingly aware of Wilde s love and intimate knowledge of philosophy. Wilde s Oxford Notebooks and his soon-to-be-published Notebook on Philosophy all point to Wilde not just as an aesthete, but also as a serious philosophical thinker. The aim of this collection is not to make the statement that Wilde was a philosopher, or that his works were philosophical tracts. Rather, it provides a space to explore any and all linkages between Wilde s works and philosophical thought. Addressing a broad spectrum of philosophical matter, from classical philology to Daoism, ethics to aestheticism, this collection enriches the literature on Wilde and philosophy alike. . |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(IX,173pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781137579584 |
| Index Number: | B790 |
| CLC: | I561.064 |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Wilde at Oxford: A Truce with Facts -- 3. Oscar Wilde s Philosophy of History -- 4. Even Things That Are True Can Be Proved: Oscar Wilde on Argument -- 5. Oscar Wilde: as Daoist Sage -- 6. Homo Ludens: Oscar Wilde s Philosophy -- 7. The Figure of the Jew as Key to Oscar Wilde s Aesth-Ethos -- 8. Wilde Thoughts on Philosophical Reference in 'An Ideal Husband': "An Ideal versus The Ideal Husband -- 9. Oscar Wilde and G. F. Hegel: The Wildean Fairy Tale as Postcolonial Dialectic. |