Umfang:
1 online resource (447 pages)
ISBN:
9781538147504
Serie:
Global Aesthetic Research
Inhalt:
This pioneering volume, for the first time, explores the extraordinary Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and his relationship to philosophy.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Permissions -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: An Encounter between the Poet and the Philosopher -- 1. Sailing out with Pessoa and Philosophy -- 2. A Plurality of Authors, Personalities, Ideas, Movements, Styles and Genres -- 3. Poets Reading Philosophy -- Philosophers Reading Poetry -- 4. The Layout of the Book -- References -- Exordium1 -- *** -- *** -- *** -- *** -- References -- Notes for the Memory of My Master Caeiro1 -- Part I: Essays on Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy -- Chapter 1: Fernando Pessoa's Vision of Neopaganism as Life's Supreme Art1 -- References -- Chapter 2: Fernando Pessoa, Daoism and the Gap: Insubstantiality, Emptiness, Vagueness and Indetermination -- 1. Insubstantiality, Emptiness, Vagueness and Indetermination in Daoism -- 2. The Vague, the In Between and the Gap in Fernando Pessoa -- References -- Chapter 3: Pessoa's Imaginary India -- 1. An Imagined India -- 2. An 'Indian Ideal' -- 3. Pessoa and the Upaniṣads -- 4. Pessoa's Indian Contemporaries -- References -- Chapter 4: Fernando Pessoa and Islamic Philosophy -- I. Islamic Philosophy in Pessoa's fictional prose -- II. Pessoa, FitzGerald's Omar Khayyām and Sufism -- Closing Remarks -- References -- Part II: Metaphysics and Post-metaphysics -- Chapter 5: Nihilism and on Being Nothing in 'The Tobacco Shop'* -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- VI -- References -- Chapter 6: Pessoa and Time -- 1. Fernando Pessoa and the hope in the past -- 2. Alberto Caeiro and the annulment of time in nature -- 3. Ricardo Reis and the serene passage of death -- 4. Álvaro de Campos and the futurist gathering of the times -- References -- Chapter 7: Pessoa and American Transcendentalism -- 1. Pessoa's Library -- 2. The Transcendentalist Roots of Pessoa's 'Sensationist' Poetics.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781538147498
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fernando Pessoa and philosophy Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2021 ISBN 9781538147498
Sprache:
Englisch
