Philosophy and Oscar Wilde. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Bennett.
• Editors: Bennett, Michael Y, 1980-
• Contents: Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: A Wilde Mind: The Witty Aesthete and Serious Thinker, or the Witty Thinker and Serious Aesthete?; Part I: Facts; Chapter 2: Wilde at Oxford: A Truce with Facts; Political Economy; Francis Bacon; The Nicomachean Ethics; Notes; Chapter 3: Oscar Wilde's Philosophy of History; Wilde's Notebooks as Ante-Text for a Philosophy of History; The Philosophy of History in Historical Criticism; History and Art: A Coda; Notes; Chapter 4: "Even Things That Are True Can Be Proved": Oscar Wilde on Argument; Notes; Chapter 5: Oscar Wilde: As Daoist Sage. Toward a Non-Definition of DaoismLiving Up to Zhuangzi; On the Contrary; Radicalizing Wilde; Putting Soul into Socialism; The Artist as Anarchist; On the Importance of Doing Nothing; "We Irishmen Think Otherwise"; Notes; PART II: Fictions; Chapter 6: Homo Ludens: Oscar Wilde's Philosophy; Decisions and Revisions; Love of Learning; Getting Personal; Notes; Chapter 7: The Figure of the Jew as Key to Oscar Wilde's Aesth-Ethos; The Salome Legend; Wilde and the Figure of the Jew; Decadence, Ethnicity, and Gender in Wilde; Conclusion; Notes. Chapter 8: Wilde Thoughts on Philosophical Reference in An Ideal Husband: "An Ideal" Versus "The Ideal" HusbandTwo Overlapping Intellectual Histories; The Rise of British Idealism; Psychologism and Its Discontents; Wilde and Russell: An Overlapping Intellectual Journey; "An" Ideal Husband (Versus "The" Ideal Husband); Conclusion: Fantasy and the Imaginary; One Final Thought; Notes; Chapter 9: Oscar Wilde and G.F. Hegel: The Wildean Fairy Tale as Postcolonial Dialectic; Wilde and Hegel at Oxford; The Generic Form of the Literary Fairy Tale. The Colonial Dichotomy as Thesis and Antithesis, and the Fairy Tale Form as DialecticUnity in Structure and Theme: Dialectical Themes in the Fairy Tales; Dialectic of Lordship and Bondage; Wildean Aestheticism; Wildean Christology and Hegelian Christology; Conclusion; Notes; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 194 pages)
• Subjects: 828.8/09; Philosophy in literature; PHILOSOPHY -- Essays; PHILOSOPHY -- Reference; Philosophy; Philosophy in literature; Philosophy; Modern Philosophy; British and Irish Literature; Electronic books; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Criticism and interpretation; Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137579584; 1137579587
• Related ISBNs: 1137579579; 9781137579577
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 13, 2017).
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