PHILOSOPHICAL STYLE:
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

compiled by Ralph Dumain

Bigelow, Pat. Kierkegaard and the Problem of Writing. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1987.

Blanshard, Brand. On Philosophical Style. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1954.

Cook, Daniel J. Language in the Philosophy of Hegel. The Hague, Mouton, 1973. (Janua linguarum Series minor; 135) Based on the author's thesis, The Role of Language in Hegel's Philosophy, Columbia University, 1968.

Donagan, Alan. "Victorian Philosophical Prose: J.S. Mill and F.H. Bradley," in: English Literature and British Philosophy: A Collection of Essays, ed. by S. P. Rosenbaum (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1971), pp. 208-228.

Fenves, Peter. Arresting Language: From Leibniz to Benjamin. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Fenves, Peter. "Of Philosophical Style—from Leibniz to Benjamin," Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture, vol. 30, no. 1, 2003, pp. 67-87.

Ginsberg, Robert, ed. The Philosopher as Writer: The Eighteenth Century. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1987.

Goetschel, Willi. Constituting Critique: Kant's Writing as Critical Praxis, translated by Eric Schwab. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.

Gracia, Jorge J. E. “Borges's ‘Pierre Menard’: Philosophy or Literature?”, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 59, no. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 45-57.

Gracia, Jorge J. E.; Korsmeyer, Carolyn; Gasché, Rodolphe; eds. Literary Philosophers?: Borges, Calvino, Eco. New York: Routledge, 2002. Contents.

Holland, Margaret G. "Can Fiction be Philosophy?" Paper presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, 10-16 August 1998.

Hyppolite, Jean. "The Structure of Philosophic Language According to the ‘Preface’ to Hegel’s Phenomenology of the Mind" [with discussion], in: The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man: The Structuralist Controversy, ed. By Richard Macksey & Eugenio Donato; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970; pp. 157-185; 335-344 [French version].

Kant, Immanuel. Raising the Tone of Philosophy: Late Essays by Immanuel Kant, transformative critique by Jacques Derrida, edited by Peter Fenves. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Publisher description.

Lang, Berel. The Anatomy of Philosophical Style: Literary Philosophy and the Philosophy of Literature. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Lang, Berel, ed. The Concept of Style. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Lang, Berel. Mind's Bodies: Thought in the Act. SUNY, 1995.

Lang, Berel, ed. Philosophical Style: An Anthology about the Writing and Reading of Philosophy. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1980.

Marias, Julian; Parsons, James, trans. Philosophy as Dramatic Theory. University Park: The Penssylvania State University Press, 1971.

Mason, Jeff. Philosophical Rhetoric: The Function of Indirection in Philosophical Writing. London; New York: Routledge, 1989.

McBride, William. “Philosophy, Literature, And Everyday Life In The Second Sex: The Current Beauvoir Revival,” Bulletin de la Soc. Américaine de Phil. de Langue Française XIII, 1. Spring 2003, pp. 32-44.

Nuzzo, Angelica. "The Language of Hegel’s Speculative Philosophy," in: Hegel and Language, edited by Jere O’Neill Surber (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006), pp. 75-91.

Peters, Michael; Nicholas C. Burbules. “Wittgenstein, Styles, and Pedagogy,” in Wittgenstein: Philosophy, Postmodernism, Pedagogy by Michael Peters and James Marshall (South Hadley, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1999), Chapter 9, pp. 152-173; and in Theory and Science, vol. 3, no. 1 (2002).

Ree, Jonathan. Philosophical Tales: An Essay on Philosophy and Literature. London; New York: Methuen, 1987. (Ideas)

Richetti, John J. Philosophical Writing: Locke, Berkeley, Hume. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983.

Scharfstein, Ben-Ami. The Philosophers: Their Lives and the Nature of Their Thought. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1980. See chapter 3, sections “The Relevance of Style: Bacon and Locke”, “The Relevance of Style: Wittgenstein” (pp. 64-73).

Schlanger, Jacques. "The Philosopher and His Mask", Diogenes, no. 157 (1992): 97-112.

Smith, John H. The Spirit and Its Letter: Traces of Rhetoric in Hegel's Philosophy of Bildung. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Suber, Peter. Metaphilosophy Themes and Questions: A Personal List. (2000) Several sections apply, e.g. Philosophy and assertion, Philosophy and exposition, Philosophy and style, Philosophy as literature.

Van Eck, Caroline; McAllister, James; van de Vall, Renee; eds. The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts)

Walters, Frank D. "Taxonomy and the Undoing of Language: Dialogic Form in the Universal Languages of the Seventeenth Century," Style, vol. 27, no. 1, 1993, pp. 1-16.

Watson, Richard A. The Philosopher's Joke: Essays in Form and Content. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1990. (Frontiers of Philosophy)

The theme purportedly connecting these essays is the relation between form and content, presented in a tongge-in-cheek fashion. For content irrespective of relevance to philosophical style, the most important essay is "The Seducer and the Seduced," about Kierkegaard. Original publication: The Georgia Review, 39 (1985): 353-366. Next in importance, seemingly a joke: "The Relation of Truth of Content to Perfection of Form in Literature"; original publication: Methodos, 15 (1963): 3-16.

Wolters, Gereon. "Style in Philosophy: The Case of Carnap", in Carnap Brought Home: The View from Jena, edited by Steve Awodey & Carsten Klein (Chicago: Open Court, 2004), pp. 25-39.

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