This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of philosophical psychology utilising insights from the study of literature.
It traverses disciplinary boundaries in two directions: some chapters proceed from the theoretical foundations of philosophical psychology and then reach into literary works, whilst others start from literary works, then reach into philosophy. Every chapter asks what literature can deliver to philosophy just as much as the reverse direction.
This volume aims to enrich and further elucidate many of the concepts central to philosophical psychology and is essential reading for all scholars, researchers and advanced students in the philosophy of mind and in the philosophy of literature.
1. Introduction: On Psychological Investigation in Narrative Fiction, Garry L. Hagberg.- Part I: Psychological Virtue and the Mind s Possibilities.- 2. The Virtue in Literature, Jon Phelan.- 3. The Summa Theologiae and Three Allied Motives for Mercy in The Merchant of Venice., Kevin M. Kambo.- 4. On Literary Possibility, Daniel Brudney.- Part II: Psychological Readings of Fictional Characters.- 5. How Not to Read: A Psychiatrist Diagnoses Fyodor Karamazov, Stewart Justman.- 6. Charland and Bennett & Hacker: Passionate Love in Fiction and Theory, R.A. Goodrich, 7. The Conscience of the Underground Man, Casey Doyle.- Part III: Psychologies of Existentialism and Phenomenology.- 8. Lose Yourself: Existential Anguish and the Undercover Detective, Jason Namey.- 9. Bereft of All Save Passion: Camus The First Man, Sophia Hlavaty.- 10. Literary Phenomenology and the Historicity of the Lifeworld: Personal and Public Crisis in Edmund Husserl and Ian McEwan s Lessons, Ian Tan.- Part IV: Aesthetic Psychology and the Seeing Mind.- 11. Beautiful beautiful objects of art : Usurpation of Kantian Aesthetics in Philip Roth s The Contest for Aaron Gold , James Duban.- 12. Not Worth a Thousand Words, Elizabeth Mazzola.- 13. Aristotle s Poetics as Philosophical Psychology, Garry L. Hagberg.- Part V: Freedom, Determinism, and Psychological Control.- 14. Indecent Exposure : Aristotle s Informing Presence in Muriel Spark s The Driver s Seat, Cynthia Lewis.- 15. Determinism vs. Free Will: The Cause of Everything, Alberto Castelli.- 16. Glutting the Maw of Death: The Frankensteinian Consequences of Denying Death and the Unseen Self, Jerry Piven.
Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, USA and Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature. He is the author of four books and the editor of nine volumes.
