METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

SUB-PAGES

• Definitions

Feminist:

• Feminist Perspectives on Metaphilosophy / Metatheory

Post-colonial:

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Metaphilosophy / Metatheory

ASSOCIATIONS

• International Association of Philosophy and Literature (IAPL)

CONFERENCES

2009:

• A Level Above?  Progression to Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, July 2-3

• Double Edges: Rhetorics / Rhizomes / Regions, Annual Conference, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Brunel University, June 1-7
• Intuitions and Philosophical Methodology, Arché Philosophical Research Centre, University of St. Andrews, April 25-27
• Making and Thinking: Performance and Philosophy as Participation, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, January 31

2008:

• Philosophical Futures, a Day of Φιλο-ΣοΦια (Philo-Sophia): Friendship and Philosophical Discussion, Murdoch University, December 1

• The Popular, Inaugural Annual World Picture Conference, Oklahoma State University, October 24-25
• Armchair in Flames?  Experimental Philosophy and its Critics, University of Cologne, September 22-24
• Rethinking Philosophy for a Global Age, XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul National University, August 30-July 5

• Philosophy Emerging from Culture, Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Soongsil University, Seoul, July 27-29

• Global Arts, Local Knowledge, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Melbourne, June 30-July 6

• Philosophy and Divine Speculation, 3rd Annual Conference, Prometheus Trust, Glastonbury, Somerset, July 3-6

• Philosophy as Therapeia: Perspectives from India and Europe, 2008 Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference, University of Liverpool, June 19-21

• Philosophy and Literature / Literature and Philosophy, Inaugural Conference, Centre for Literature and Philosophy, University of Sussex, June 12-14

• Ethics without Principles: the Diversity of Contexts of Moral Particularism, Philosophy, Practices and the Practice of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Université de Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, May 10

• Goethe-Lichtenberg-Wittgenstein: Philosophy, Psychology, Natural Sciences, Philosophy, Practices and the Practice of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Université de Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, March 15

• What is Comparative Philosophy?, Wolfson College, Oxford University, March 14-16

• The World in a Phrase: Philosophy and the Aphorism, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, March 14

2007:

• Science, a Model for Metaphysics?  Philosophy, Practices and the Practice of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Université de Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, December 8

• Philosophical Dialogues:a Day of Φιλο-ΣοΦια (Philo-Sophia): Friendship and Philosophical Discussion, Murdoch University, November 30

• Poets Reading Philosophy / Philosophers Reading Poetry, Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts, University of Warwick, October 26-28

• The Nature of Transcendental Philosophy, Essex Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism Project, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, September 18-19
• Philosophy Emerging from Culture, Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Java, Indonesia, July 9-21
• Philosophy: its Essence, Power and Energy, 2nd Annual Conference, Prometheus Trust, June 28-July 1
• Externalism, Conceptual Analysis, and the Methods of Modern Philosophy, University of Tartu, Estonia, June 13-14
• Layering: Textual, Visual, Spatial, Temporal, 31st Annual Conference, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, University of Cyprus, June 4-9
• Philosophy and Literature: Reading Across the Disciplines, Wesleyan University, May 9-10

2006:

• Beyond Ground Zero: 9/11 and the Futures of Critical Thought, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, October 21
• Philosophy as a Discipline: on the Nature of Philosophical Knowledge, University of Tampere, September 7-8
• Rethinking Philosophy Today, 22nd World Congress of Philosophy, International Federation of Philosophical Societies, Seoul, July 30-August 5
• The Nature of Philosophy and its Relevance, Western Carolina University, July 22-27
• What is Philosophy?, Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick, June 24
• Between Three: Arts, Media, Politics, 30th Annual Conference, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Albert Ludwigs Universitat Freiburg, Germany, June 5-10

2005:

• Philosophy in the 21st Century, Department of Philosophy, Murdoch University, November 23
• Uncertainty in Philosophy: the Learning Experience and Research, Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies, and Society for Women in Philosophy, University of Leeds, October 25
• Philosophical Methodology, Philosophy Program, RSSS, Australian National University, July 20-22
• Future Discourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophy, Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies, University of Leeds, July 1-2
• Chiasmatic Encounters in Philosophy and Art, 29th Annual Conference, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, University of Helsinki, June 2-7
• Philosophy as a Way of Life, Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, June 2-3
• Conceptualising Philosophy, Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, March 31-April 1

2004:

• Philosophy and Literature, Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St. Andrews, December 15

• Virtual Materialities, 28th Annual Conference, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Le Moyne College, May 19-25

2003:

• Non-Philosophy Now: Theory and Practices, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, November 15

• Conceptions of Philosophy: Ancient and Modern, 15th Conference of the International Association of Greek Philosophy, August 1-7

• Ou va la théorie?' / 'Whither Theory?, Centre de recherches en anglistique, Paris X Nanterre and Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, Universite de Paris X Nanterre, June 19-21

• Writing Aesthetics, 27th Annual Conference, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Leeds University, May 26-31

2002:

• Philosophy As: a Conference Exploring the Nature and State of Philosophy, Senate House, University of London, November 28-30

• Intermedialities, 26th Annual Conference, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Erasmus, University of Rotterdam, June 3-8

2001:

• Beginnings, 25th Annual Conference, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Spelman College, May 1-5

2000:

• Crossing Borders, 24th Annual Conference, IAPL, State University of New York, Stony Brook,

• Turnings in Philosophy, Culture and the Arts at the Turn of the Century, 24th Annual Conference, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Naples,

1999:

• Philosophy and Literature, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton, March 18-20

Occasional:

• Slought Foundation: Conversations in Theory Series

COURSES

Philosophy:

• Earlham College: Metaphilosophy (Suber)

Theory:

• Bucknell University: Modern Critical Theory (Hunter)
• University of California, Santa Cruz: Theory Wars (Terdiman)
• University of Chicago: Foundations of Interpretive Theory
• Dalhousie University: Between Philosophy and Literature (Glowacka)
• University of Edinburgh: Metaphysics and Melancholy: Philosophy and Literature 1689-1764 (Milnes)
• Georgetown University: Cultural Theory (Irvine)
• Grinnell College: Cultural Critique: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Beyond (Schrift)
• Miami University of Ohio: Philosophy or Literature?  The Literary Art of Philosophers (Bradatan) or here
• University of Texas:
  • Austin: Rhetoric and Philosophy (Cherwitz)
  • Dallas: Rhetoric and Philosophy in Conflict (Haynes and Bambach)
• Valparaiso University: Truth vs Rhetoric: Rhetoric and Philosophy (Beasley)
• University of Virginia:
  • Modern Theory: Marx, Arendt, Sartre, Foucault (2001) (Megill): Syllabus
  • Modern Theory: Marx, Arendt, Sartre, Foucault (2000) (Megill): Syllabus
  • Modern Theory: Marx, Arendt, Sartre, Foucault (1999) (Megill): Syllabus
  • Origins of Modern Thought (2001) (Megill): Syllabus
  • Origins of Modern Thought (1997) (Megill)
  • Origins of Contemporary Thought (2003) (Megill): Syllabus
  • Origins of Contemporary Thought (2002) (Megill): Syllabus
  • Origins of Contemporary Thought (2001) (Megill): Syllabus
  • Origins of Contemporary Thought (1999) (Megill): Syllabus
  • Origins of Contemporary Thought (1998) (Megill)
• University of Washington: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (Behler)

JOURNALS

• Metaphilosophy

• Philosophy and Literature (also here)

• Philosophy and Rhetoric

• World Picture

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

• Ancient (Classical):
• Medieval:
• Early Modern:
  • Renaissance:
  • Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries:
• Nineteenth Century:
• Twentieth Century:

  • Analytic:

    • Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

    • C. D. Broad (1887 - 1971)

    • Hans Reichenbach (1891 - 1953)

    • Michael Dummett (1925 - )

  • Continental:

    • (Post-)Structuralisms:

      • Deconstruction:

        • Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2005)

      • Deleuzean Theory:

        • Gilles Deleuze (1925 - 1995)

        • Pierre-Félix Guattari (1930 - 1992)

      • Structuralist Marxism:

        • Louis Althusser (1918 - 1990)

        • Pierre Macherey (1938 - )

    • Idealism:

      • Benedetto Croce (1866 - 1952)

      • Michael Oakeshott (1901 - 1990)

    • Marxism:

      • Antonio Gramsci (1891 - 1937)

      • Max Horkheimer (1895 - 1971)

      • Pierre Bourdieu (1930 - 2002)

    • Phenomenology / Existentialism / Hermeneutics:

      • Edmund Husserl (1859 - 1938)
      • Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976)
      • Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900 - 2002)

      • Ernesto Grassi (1902 - 1991)

      • John McCumber ( - )

  • Pragmatism:

    • John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
    • Richard Rorty (1931 - )
  • Thomism:
    • Alasdair MacIntyre (1929 - )

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Book Series:

• Continuum: Textures: Philosophy / Literature / Culture

• University Press of Florida: Crosscurrents - Comparative Studies in European Literature and Philosophy

• Humanities: Philosophy Insights

• Humanity: Philosophy and Literary Theory.  Ed. Hugh J. Silverman.

• Northwestern University Press:

  • Philosophy, Literature and Culture.  Ed. Hugh J. Silverman.

  • Rethinking Theory

• Pennsylvania State University Press: Literature and Philosophy.  Ed. Anthony J. Cascardi.

• Routledge: Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature

• SUNY Press: Margins of Literature

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Philosophy:

    • Baynes, Kenneth, James Bohman, and Thomas McCarthy, eds.  After Philosophy: End or Transformation?.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986.

    • Cohen, Avner, and Marcelo Dascal, eds.  The Institution of Philosophy: a Discipline in Crisis?.  La Salle: Open Court, 1989.
    • Ragland, C. P., and Sarah Heidt, eds.  What is Philosophy?  New Haven: Yale UP, 2001.

    • Historiography of Philosophy:

      • Gracia, Jorge J. E., ed.  Philosophy and its History: Issues in Philosophical Historiography.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.

      • Holland, Alan J., ed.  Philosophy, its History and Historiography.  Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985.

      • Rorty, Richard, Jerome B. Schneewind, and Quentin Skinner, eds.  Philosophy in History: Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1984.

      • Rée, Jonathan, Michael Ayers, and Adam Westoby, eds.  Philosophy and its Pasts.  Brighton: Harvester, 1978.

      • Schneewind, J. B., ed.  Teaching New Histories of Philosophy.  Princeton: University Center for Human Values, 2004.

      • Sorell, Tom, and G. A. J. Rogers, eds.  Analytic Philosophy and History Of Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 2005.
  • Theory:
    • Cohen, Ralph, ed.  The Future of Literary Theory.  London: Routledge, 1989.
    • Flynn, Thomas R., and Dalia Judowitz, eds.  Dialectic and Narrative.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.

    • Freadman, Richard, and Lloyd Reinhardt, eds.  On Literary Theory and Philosophy.  New York: St. Martin's, 1991.

    • Garcia, Jorge J. E., Carolyn Korsmeyer, and Rodolphe Gasché, eds.  Literary Philosophers: Borges, Calvino, Eco.  London: Routledge, 2002.
    • Hiley, David R., James Bohman, and Richard Shusterman, eds.  The Interpretive Turn: Philosophy, Science and Culture.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991.
    • Jay, Gregory S., and David L. Miller, eds.  After Strange Texts: the Role of Theory in the Study of Literature.  Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1985.

    • Kusch, Martin, ed.  The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge.  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000.

    • Mitchell, W. J. T., ed.  Against Theory: Literary Study and the New Pragmatism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.

    • Nash, Christopher, ed.  Narrative in Culture: the Uses of Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy, and Literature.  London: Routledge, 1990.

    • Natoli, Joseph, ed.  Tracing Literary Theory.  Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1987.

    • Patai, Daphne, and Wilfrido Corral, eds.  Theory's Empire: an Anthology of Dissent.  New York: Columbia UP, 2004.

• Selected Individual Works:
  • Philosophy:
    • Abbott, Andrew.  Chaos of Disciplines.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001.
    • Abbott, Andrew.  Department and Discipline.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999.
    • Ameriks, Karl.  Kant and the Historical Turn: Philosophy as Critical Interpretation.  Oxford: OUP, 2006.
    • Blanshard, Brand.  On Philosophical Style.  1954.
    • Boethius.  The Consolation of Philosophy. 
    • Calhoun, Laurie.  Philosophy Unmasked: a Skeptic's Critique.  Lawrence: U of Kansas P, 1997.
    • Collingwood, R. G.  An Essay on Philosophical Method.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1933.
    • Craig, Edward.  The Mind of God and the Works of Man.  Oxford: OUP, 1987.
    • Deleuze, Jacques, and Félix Guattari.  What is Philosophy?  New York: Columbia UP, 1994.
    • Dewey, John.  Reconstruction in Philosophy.  New York: Henry Holt, 1920. 
    • Dewey, John.  "The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy."  John Dewey: On Experience, Nature and Freedom: Representative Selections.  Ed. R. J. Bernstein.  New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1960.  19-69.
    • Earle, William.  "Philosophy as Autobiography."  Public Sorrows and Private Pleasures.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1976.
    • Friedman, Michael.  "Philosophy as Dynamic Reason: the Idea of a Scientific Philosophy."  What Philosophy Is.  Ed. Havi Carel and David Gamez.  London: Continuum, 2004.  73-96.
    • Gorovitz, Samuel, et al.  Philosophical Analysis: an Introduction to its Language and Techniques.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979.
    • Hadot, Pierre. Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
    • Hales, Steven D.  Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.
    • Kitching, Philip.  The Trouble with Theory: the Educational Costs of Postmodernism.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2008.
    • Lange, John.  The Cognitivity Paradox: an Inquiry Concerning the Claims of Philosophy.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1970.
    • Lazerowitz, Morris.  Studies in Metaphilosophy.  New York: Humanities, 1964.
    • Mepham, John.  "The Structuralist Sciences and Philosophy."  Structuralism: an Introduction.  Ed. David Robey.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1973.  104-137.

    • Moulton, Janice.  "A Paradigm of Philosophy: the Adversary Method."  Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, Philosophy of Science.  Ed. S. G. Harding and M. P. Hintikka.  Dordrecht: Riedel, 1983; 2nd Ed. Kluwer Academic, 2003.  149-164.  Rpt. in Women, Knowledge, and Reality.  Ed. Ann Garry and M. Pearsall .  Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.  5-20.

    • Nielsen, Kai.  After the Demise of the Tradition: Rorty, Critical Theory, and the Fate of Philosophy.  New York: Perseus, 1991.

    • Nielsen, Kai.  On Transforming Philosophy: a Metaphilosophical Inquiry.  New York: Perseus, 1996.

    • Nightingale, Andrea Wilson.  Genres in Dialogues: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.
    • Pivčević, Edo.  The Reason Why: a Theory of Philosophical Explanation.  KruZak, 2007.
    • Rée, Jonathan.  "The Translation of Philosophy."  New Literary History 32 (2001): .

    • Reichenbach, Hans.  The Rise of Scientific Philosophy.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1951.

    • Rescher, Nicholas.  Interpreting Philosophy: the Elements of Philosophical Hermeneutics.  Frankfurt: Ontos, 2007.

    • Rescher, Nicholas.  Philosophical Dialectics: an Essay on Metaphilosophy.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2006.
    • Rescher, Nicholas.  Philosophical Reasoning: a Study in the Methodology of Philosophising.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
    • Rosen, Stanley.  The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry.  London: Routledge, 1988.
    • Rosenberg, Jay F.  Practice of Philosophy: a Handbook for Beginners.  Prentice-Hall, 1978.
    • Russell, Bertrand.  "Logic as the Essence of Philosophy."  Our Knowledge of the External World.  London: , 1914.
    • Snow, C. P.  The Two Cultures and A Second Look: an Expanded Version of the Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.  The Rede Lecture, 1959.  Cambridge: CUP, 1964.
    • Sorell, Tom.  Scientism: Philosophy and the Infatuation With Science.  London: Routledge, 1991.
    • Williams, Bernard.  Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline.  Ed. A. W. Moore.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.
    • Wimsatt, William C.  Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2007.
    • Wisdom, John Oulton.  The Metamorphosis of Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1947.

    • Historiography of Philosophy:

      • Ayers, Michael.  "Analytical Philosophy and the History of Philosophy."  Philosophy and its Pasts.  By Jonathan Rée, Ayers, and Adam Westoby.  Brighton: Harvester, 1978.  41-66.

      • Bottin Francesco, et al.  Models of the History of Philosophy: 1. from its Origins in the Renaissance to the 'Historia Philosophica'.  1993.

      • Braun, Lucien.  Histoire de l'histoire de la philosophie.  Paris, 1973.

      • Ellis, Fiona.  Concepts and Reality in the History of Philosophy: Tracing a Philosophical Error from Locke to Bradley.  London: Routledge, 2005.

      • Frede, Michael.  "The History of Philosophy as a Discipline."  Journal of Philosophy 85.11 (1988): 666-72.

      • Levin, David Michael.  The Philosopher's Gaze: Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1999.

      • Levin, David Michael.  The Opening of Vision: Nihilism and the Postmodern Situation.  London: Routledge, 1988.

      • Levin, David Michael.  The Body's Recollection of Being: Phenomenological Psychology and the Deconstruction of Nihilism.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.

      • Livingston, Paul M.  Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.

      • MacIntyre, Alasdair.  "The Relationship of Philosophy to its Past."  Philosophy in History: Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy.  Ed. Richard Rorty, Jerome B. Schneewind, and Quentin Skinner.  Cambridge: CUP, 1984.  31-48.

      • Mandelbaum, Maurice.  "On the Historiography of Philosophy."  Philosophy Research Archives 2 (1976): .

      • Mandelbaum, M.  "The History of Ideas, Intellectual History, and the History of Philosophy."  The Historiography of the History of Philosophy.  Special Edition of History and Theory 4 (1965): 31-66.

      • Passmore, John.  "Historiography of Philosophy."  Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  New York: Macmillan, 1967. 

      • Rée, Jonathan.  "The Story of Philosophy."  Philosophical Tales: an Essay in Philosophy and Literature.  London: Methuen, 1987.  31-55.

      • Rée, Jonathan.  "Philosophy and the History of Philosophy."  Philosophy and its Pasts.  By Rée, Michael Ayers, and Adam Westoby.  Brighton: Harvester, 1978.  1-39.

      • Rosen, Stanley.  The Ancients and the Moderns.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1989.

      • Wilson, Margaret.  "History of Philosophy in Philosophy Today; and the Case of the Sensible Qualities."  Philosophical Review 101 (1991): 191-243.

      • Zammito, John H.  "'Are We Being Theoretical Yet?': the New Historicism, the New Philosophy, and ‘'Practicing Historians."  Journal of Modern History 65 (1993): 784–814.

  • Theory:
    • Anderson, Amanda.  The Way We Argue Now: a Study in the Cultures of Theory.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005.
    • Benjamin, Andrew.  Philosophy's Literature.  Clinamen, 2001.
    • Bernard-Donals, Michael F.  The Practice of Theory: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Pedagogy in the Academy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.
    • Bochenski, J. M.  1899.
      • The Methods of Contemporary Thought.  Trans. Peter Caws.  New York: Harper and Row, 1968.

    • Bourbon, Brett.  Finding a Replacement for the Soul: Mind and Meaning in Literature and Philosophy.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2004.

    • Bowie, Malcolm.  Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
    • Bruss, Elizabeth.  Beautiful Theories: the Spectacle of Discourse in Contemporary Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1982.

    • Butler, Judith.  "Can the 'Other' of Philosophy Speak?" 

      • Undoing Gender.  London: Routledge, 2004.  232-250.

    • Clemens, Justin.  The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.

    • Collins, Randall.  The Sociology of Philosophies: a Global Theory of Intellectual Change.  Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1998.

    • Collins, Randall.  “Sociology and Philosophy.”  International Handbook of Sociology.  Ed. Craig Calhoun, Chris Rojek, and Bryan Turner.  London: Sage, 2003. 

    • Crane, R. S.  "Philosophy, Literature and the History of Ideas."  Modern Philology 52 (1954): . 

      • Vol. 1 of The Idea of the Humanities, and Other Essays Critical and Historical.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1967.  173-187.

    • Critchley, Simon.  Very Little--Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature.  London: Routledge, 1997.
    • Culler, Jonathan.  Framing the Sign: Criticism and its Institutions.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1988.
    • Culler, Jonathan.  "La Critique littéraire et l'université: modèles conflictuels (Etats-Unis)."  Etudes Francaises 23.1-2 (1988): 75-88.

    • Cunningham, Valentine.  Reading after Theory.  2002.

    • Danto, Arthur C.  "Philosophy and / as / of Literature."  Literature and the Question of Philosophy.  Ed. Anthony J. Cascardi.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.  3-23.

    • Eagleton, Terry.  After Theory.  London: Basic, 2004.
    • Elridge, Richard.  The Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in Philosophy and Literature.  Cambridge: CUP, 2001.
    • Frank, Manfred.  Stil in der Philosophie.  Stuttgart: Reclam, 1992.
      • "Style in Philosophy."  Metaphilosophy 30.4 (1999): 264-301.
      • "Towards a Philosophy of Style."  Trans. Richard E. Palmer.  Common Knowledge 1.1 (1992): 54-77.

    • Gasché, Rodolphe.  The Honor of Thinking: Critique, Theory, Philosophy.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 2006.

    • Genosko, Gary.  Undisciplined Theory.  London: Sage, 1998.

    • Grassi, Ernesto.  Rhetoric as Philosophy: the Humanist Tradition.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1980.  Rpt. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2000.

    • McGilchrist, Iain.  Against Criticism.  London: Faber and Faber, 1982.

    • Haas, Andrew W.  Poetics of Critique.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
    • Hamacher, Werner.  Premises: Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999.
    • Ijsseling, Samuel.  Rhetoric and Philosophy in Conflict: an Historical Survey.  The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976.

    • Knapp, Steven, and Walter Benn Michaels.  "Against Theory (Literary Criticism)."  Critical Inquiry 8 (1982): 723-742.

      • Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  New York: Norton, . 

    • Krieger, Murray.  "Literary Invention and the Impulse to Theoretical Change."  New Literary History 18 (1986): 191-208.

    • Krieger, Murray.  Theory of Criticism: a Tradition and its System.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1976.
    • Kuberski, Philip.  Chaosmos: Literature, Science, and Theory After Modernism.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2004.
    • Landy, Joshua.  Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust.  Oxford: OUP, 2004.
    • Le Doeuff, Michèle.  The Philosophical Imaginary.  Trans. Colin Gordon.  London: Athlone, 1989.  Rpt. New York: Continuum, 2003.

    • Lyon, Arabella.  Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1998.

    • Macherey, Pierre.  "What is Literature Thinking About?" and "Towards a Literary Philosophy."  The Object of Literature.  Trans. David Macey.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.  1-9 and 228-237.
    • Marias, Julian.  Philosophy as Dramatic Theory.  Trans. James Parsons.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1971.

    • Mason, Jeff.  Philosophical Rhetoric: the Function of Indirection in Philosophical Writing.  London: Routledge,

    • Meyer, Michel.  De la problématologie: Philosophie, science et langage.  Paris: P. Mardaga, 1986. 
      • Problematology: Philosophy, Science and Language.  Trans. David Jamison.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.

    • Nehamas, Alexander.  The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault.  Berkeley: U of California P, 2000.

    • Nightingale, Andrea Wilson.  Genres in Dialogues: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.

    • Rabaté, Jean-Michel.  The Future of Theory.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

    • Rapaport, Herman.  The Theory Mess.  New York: Columbia UP, 2001.

    • Redner, Harry.  The Ends of Philosophy: an Essay in the Sociology of Philosophy and Rationality.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Allanheld, 1986.

    • Rée, Jonathan.  Philosophical Tales: an Essay in Philosophy and Literature.  London: Methuen, 1987.
    • Roberts, David.  Reconstructing Theory: Gadamer, Habermas, Luhmann.  Melbourne: U of Melbourne P, 1995.
    • Rosmarin, Adena.  "On the Theory of 'Against Theory.'"  Critical Inquiry 9 (1983): .

    • Sorell, Tom.  Scientism: Philosophy and the Infatuation with Science.  London: Routledge, 1994.

    • Warner, Martin.  Philosophical Finesse: Studies in the Art of Rational Persuasion.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1999.
    • Weber, Samuel.  Demarcating the Disciplines: Philosophy, Literature, Art.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1986.
    • White, Morton.  A Philosophy of Culture: the Scope of Holistic Pragmatism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005.
    • Wood, David.  Philosophy at the Limit.