ID - 2026927 TI - Literature against philosophy, Plato to Derrida : a defence of poetry PY - 1995 SN - 0521485320 0521410932 0511552750 9780511552755 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy KW - Literature KW - Filosofie en literatuur KW - Philosophie et littérature KW - Philosophy and litterature KW - Poetics KW - Poétique KW - Poëtica KW - Philosophy and literature KW - Littérature KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc KW - Histoire et critique KW - Théorie, etc KW - Poetics. KW - Theory, etc. KW - Philosophy. KW - 82:1 KW - Literatuur en filosofie KW - 82:1 Literatuur en filosofie KW - Littérature KW - Philosophie et littérature KW - Poétique KW - Théorie, etc KW - Poetry KW - Literature and philosophy KW - Belles-lettres KW - Western literature (Western countries) KW - World literature KW - Philology KW - Authors KW - Authorship KW - History and criticism&delete& KW - Technique KW - Theory KW - Philosophy and literature. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2026927 AB - This timely book argues that the institutionalisation of literary theory, particularly within American and British academic circles, has led to a sterility of thought which ignores the special character of literary art. Mark Edmundson traces the origins of this tendency to the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry, in which Plato took the side of philosophy; and he shows how the work of modern theorists - Foucault, Derrida, de Man and Bloom - exhibits similar drives to subsume poetic art into some 'higher' kind of thought. Challenging and controversial, this book should be read by all teachers of literature and of theory, and by anyone concerned about the future of institutionalised literary studies. ER -