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\"Philosophy or Poetry?: A Continental Perspective is an exciting and innovative contribution to continental philosophy, aesthetics, and comparative literature that will have broad interest and appeal. The unique spirit with which major thinkers in the contemporary continental tradition engage with the challenge of poetry (and perhaps the arts in general) to questions both political and personal is conveyed in these essays commissioned from specialists and major thinkers in their own right--Georges Van Den Abbeele, Lutz Koepnick, Jean Michel Rabate, Francois Noudelmann, Claire Colebrook, Jean Philippe Deranty, and Bruno Bosteels, among others\"-- Provided by publisher.

The philosophy of \"presence\" seeks to challenge current understandings of meaning and understanding. One can trace its origins back to Vico, Dilthey, and Heidegger, though its more immediate exponents include Jean-Luc Nancy, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, and such contemporary philosophers of history as Frank Ankersmit and Eelco Runia. The theoretical paradigm of presence conveys how the past is literally with us in the present in significant and material ways: Things we cannot touch nonetheless touch us. This makes presence a post-linguistic or post-discursive theory that challenges current understandings of \"meaning\" and \"interpretation.\"Presenceprovides an overview of the concept and surveys both its weaknesses and its possible uses. In this book, Ethan Kleinberg and Ranjan Ghosh bring together an interdisciplinary group of contributors to explore the possibilities and limitations of presence from a variety of perspectives-history, sociology, literature, cultural theory, media studies, photography, memory, and political theory. The book features critical engagements with the presence paradigm within intellectual history, literary criticism, and the philosophy of history. In three original case studies, presence illuminates the relationships among photography, the past, memory, and the Other. What these diverse but overlapping essays have in common is a shared commitment to investigate the attempt to reconnect meaning with something \"real\" and to push the paradigm of presence beyond its current uses. The volume is thus an important intervention in the most fundamental debates within the humanities today. Contributors:Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales; Mark Bevir, University of California, Berkeley; Susan A. Crane, University of Arizona; Ranjan Ghosh, University of North Bengal; Suman Gupta, Open University Ethan Kleinberg, Wesleyan University; John Michael, University of Rochester; Vincent P. Pecora, University of Utah; Roger I. Simon.

Edward Said is widely recognized for his work as a critic and theorist of Orientalism and the Palestine crisis, but far less attention has been devoted to his considerable body of literary and cultural criticism. In this edited collection, the contributors - many among the foremost Said scholars in the world - examine Said as the literary critic; his relationship to other major contemporary thinkers (including Derrida, Ricoeur, Barthes and Bloom); and his involvement with major movements and concerns of his time (such as music, Feminism, New Humanism, and Marxism). Featuring freshly carved out essays on new areas of intervention, the volume is an indispensable addition for those interested in Edward Said and the many areas in which his legacy looms. Foreword Benita Parry. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Section A 1. \"A Roomy Place Full of Possibility\": Said’s Orientalism and the Literary Nicholas Harrison 2. Edward Said and Roland Barthes: Criticism versus Essayism. Or: Roads and Meetings Missed Andy Stafford 3. Derrida and Said: Ships that Pass in the Night Caroline Rooney 4. Said .. Bloom …. Vico Graham Allen 5. The Materiality and Ideality of Text: Said and Ricoeur Karl Simms . Section B 6. \"The Southern Question\" and Said’s Geographical Critical Consciousness. Shaobo Xie 7. Fellow Travellers and Homeless Souls: Said’s Critical Marxism Ross Abbinnett 8. Edward Said and the Interplay of Music, History, and Ideology Derek B. Scott 9. Edward Said and (the Postcolonial Occlusion of) Gender Elleke Boehmer 10. Reading Orientalism in Istanbul: Edward Said and Orhan Pamuk Kate Teltscher 11. On Late Style: Edward Said’s Humanism Pal Ahluwalia . Section C 12. Autobiography and Exile: Edward Said’s Out of Place Linda Anderson 13. Edward Said, American International Policy and War on Terror Taieb Belghazi 14. Representations of the Intellectual: the Historian as ‘Outsider’ Ranjan Ghosh . Contributors. Index. Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English at the University of North Bengal. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Germany and European Research Fellow in London. He is published in journals such as the Oxford Literary Review , History and Theory , Nineteenth Century Prose , Rethinking History , Storia della Storiographia , Angelaki and others. Among his many books include (In)fusion Approach: Theory, Contestation, Limits (2006) and Globalizing Dissent (Routledge, 2009).