The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Aschenbach is not only a projection of Mann in the obvious ways - same daily routines, author of the works Mann had… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Philosophy by showing - including philosophy in literature - does truly valuable work in leading us to new perspectives from which our… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I'm a pluralist about perspectives on literature. There seem to me to be all sorts of illuminating ways of responding to major… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Sometimes, of course, the artist does give up, saying, in effect, "I've done enough". Prospero declares that the revels are ended, and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Thomas Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has probably been more widely read—and more widely misinterpreted—than any other book in the… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
In the end, we learn about the most basic philosophical questions - like "How to live?" - from a broad mixture of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Ethical inquiry has always been motivated by the aim of improving human conduct. It doesn't follow from that that the goal is… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
In elaborating how "philosophy by showing" works, and in defending the idea that literature and music can contribute to philosophical "showing", I… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer us perspectives… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
As I read Mann in German for the first time, the full achievement - both literary and philosophical - of Death in Venice struck… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The fundamental problem… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film). — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
In my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly pointed out… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore passed on… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
