Joyce's Ulysses: Philosophical Perspectives
Philip Kitcher
Abstract
Ulysses is a famously difficult book. Philosophy is well-known as an abstruse subject. Yet thinking about Joyce’s great novel in philosophical ways provides not only new approaches for seasoned Joyceans but also orientation for those perplexed by Ulysses. Six eminent scholars, philosophers and literary critics, combine philosophical and literary analysis to present accessible perspectives on one of the world’s masterpieces. Successive chapters explore Joyce’s revisionary attitudes to the emotions, to consciousness, to the roles of the senses, to the relation between fiction and reality, to the ... More
Ulysses is a famously difficult book. Philosophy is well-known as an abstruse subject. Yet thinking about Joyce’s great novel in philosophical ways provides not only new approaches for seasoned Joyceans but also orientation for those perplexed by Ulysses. Six eminent scholars, philosophers and literary critics, combine philosophical and literary analysis to present accessible perspectives on one of the world’s masterpieces. Successive chapters explore Joyce’s revisionary attitudes to the emotions, to consciousness, to the roles of the senses, to the relation between fiction and reality, to the impact of history and tradition on human lives, and to the ways in which we can reorganize the experiential worlds in which we live.
Keywords:
Ulysses,
pragmatism,
moral inquiry,
death,
James Joyce,
perceptual content,
historical consciousness,
interpretation,
literary modernism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190842260 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2020 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190842260.001.0001 |
