Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction - literature and philosophy: the contemporary interface / David Rudrum -- First lessons: Gilles Deleuze and the concept of literature / Anthony Larson -- 'The absence of origin': Beckett and contemporary French philosophy / Derval Tubridy -- The pattern that literature makes: Davidson, pragmatism, and the reconstruction of the literary / Bryan Vescio -- Autobiographical memory: Wittgenstein, Davidson, and the 'descent into ourselves' / Garry L. Hagberg -- What can my nonsense tell me about you? / Brett Bourbon -- A risky business: internal time and objective time in Husserl and Woolf / Ralph Strehle -- The poetics of thinking / Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei -- Construction without theory: oblique reflections on Walter Benjamin's Goethe / Richard J. Lane -- Liminal agencies: literature as moral philosophy / Mary C. Rawlinson -- Is forgiveness ever possible at all? / Rupert Read -- Who is speaking? Brodsky, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the question of genre / Michael Eskin -- Literary potential: the release of criticism / Andrew Benjamin -- Gibberophobia: philosophy, fear, and the plain style / Jonathan Ree -- Philosophy's metaphors: Dennett, Midgley, and Derrida / Robert Eaglestone -- Hearing voices: a dialogical reading of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations / David Rudrum -- No matter: aesthetic theory and the self-annihilating artwork / Josh Cohen -- Form, reflection, disclosure: literary aesthetics and contemporary criticism / Simon Malpas.