Although an alleged quarrel between philosophy and poetry has ancient roots and a history extending into the present, rigid distinctions between the two have been difficult to maintain. Philosophy is a mode of writing, and one that often utilizes literary and poetic devices, sometimes without explicit awareness or design on the philosopher's part, while poetry can reveal philosophical lines of questioning and modes of response that go to the heart of human existence. Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry explores ancient, modern, and contemporary texts in ways that are sensitive to philosophical themes and problems that can be fruitfully addressed through poetic modes of writing, and focused on questions of style, the relations between form and content, and the conduciveness of literary modes of expression to philosophical inquiry. With a keen interest in the intertwining of poetry and philosophy in all forms, the series will cover the philosophical register of poetry, the poetics of philosophical writing, and the literary strategies of philosophers. The series provides a home for work on figures across geographical landscapes, with contributions that employ a wide range of methods across academic disciplines, and without regard for divisions within philosophy, between analytic and continental, for example, that have outworn their usefulness. Featuring single-authored works and edited collections, curated by an international editorial board, the series aims to redefine how we read and discuss philosophy and poetry today. Daniel Brown, University of Southampton, UK Kristen Case, University of Maine Farmington, USA Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Cassandra Falke, University of Tromsø, Norway Luke Fischer, University of Sydney, Australia John Gibson, University of Louisville, USA James Haile III, University of Rhode Island, USA Kevin Hart, Duke University, USA Eileen John, University of Warwick, UK Troy Jollimore, California State University, USA David Kleinberg-Levin, Northwestern University, USA John Koethe, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA John T. Lysaker, Emory University, USA Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College, USA Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Indian Institute of Technology, India Kamiyo Ogawa, Sophia University, Japan Kaz Oishi, University of Tokyo, Japan Yi-Ping Ong, Johns Hopkins University, USA Anna Christina Soy Ribeiro, Texas Tech University, USA Karen Simecek, University of Warwick, UK Ruth Rebecca Tietjen, Tilburg University, Netherlands Íngrid Vendrell Ferran, Philipps University Marburg, Germany.
Philosophical Fragments As the Poetry of Thinking : Romanticism and the Living Present