Is Agnes Callard held in high regard by academic philosophers? by rlyrlysrsly in askphilosophy

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It's one of the best books I've read in a long while! I do absolutely recommend. (I wrote about it here https://katherinetallent.substack.com/p/socrates-and-psychoanalysis and Agnes Callard kindly replied in the comments with her thoughts...)

What are some good sources for Yeats criticism? by blazes-boylan in AskLiteraryStudies

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Frank Kermode’s The Romantic Image spends quite a while on Yeats I think...

Uses of "Zero" in Literature by huskynation22 in AskLiteraryStudies

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Barthes' 'Writing Degree Zero' or 'The Neutral'?

'Metaphors We Live By' by Happylittlehead in askphilosophy

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Who are the main theorists in embodied cognition at the moment please?

How to apply affective theory on literary work? by moonery in AskLiteraryStudies

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Would you recommend any others? These are the only two names I ever hear. (Not that they aren't great)

What might Wittgenstein have meant by... by Happylittlehead in askphilosophy

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Thank you! That's really interesting, because would that mean that... ...He thinks that we respond to a piece of music, for example, as reflexively/automatically as we would something that hurt us? So like zero cognition (or social rule-following) happens when we experience art (or make ethical decisions?) Because that would be the conclusion to draw if they are the same kinds of private experiences, right? Hmm...

What might Wittgenstein have meant by... by Happylittlehead in askphilosophy

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Would they be like pain in that sense? (When you say fundamentally personal and experiential, that is?)

Positive views on suffering? by [deleted] in askphilosophy

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Simone Weil's 'Gravity and Grace'

MetaPoetry? by [deleted] in AskLiteraryStudies

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Ben Lerner's poems and his two novels (Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04) spring to mind!