Philosophy in Literature

Metaphysical Darkness and Ethical Light

  • Konstantin Kolenda
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
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  2. Noon

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-4
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    2. Striving Glorified: Goethe’s Faust
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      Pages 5-22
    3. Integrity Preserved: Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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      Pages 23-39
    4. Evil Conquered: Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
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      Pages 40-55

  3. Twilight

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 57-60
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    2. Innocence Sacrificed: Melville’s Billy Budd
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      Pages 61-74
    3. Truth Retrieved: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
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      Pages 75-88
    4. Vision Blurred: Mann’s The Magic Mountain
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      Pages 89-119

  4. Night

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 121-124
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    2. Alienation Embraced: Camus’s The Stranger
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      Pages 125-138
    3. Freedom Frustrated: Sartre’s No Exit
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      Pages 139-146
    4. Meanings Exhausted: Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
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      Pages 147-163

  5. Dawn

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 165-168
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    2. Faith Renewed: Auden’s For the Time Being
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      Pages 169-187
    3. Time Transcended: Eliot’s Four Quartets
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      Pages 188-208
    4. Death Defused: Rilke’s Duino Elegies
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      Pages 209-226

  6. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion
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      Pages 227-233
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 234-237
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About this book

Keywords

Aristotle drama ethics Imagination Immanuel Kant Interpretation metaphysics morality Narrative philosophy Plato religion structure time truth

Authors and affiliations

  • Konstantin Kolenda
    • 1
  1. 1.Rice UniversityUSA

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05961-4
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1982
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-05963-8
  • Online ISBN 978-1-349-05961-4
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