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Saramago's philosophical heritage
Abstract
The past decades have seen a growing "philosophical" interest in a number of authors, but strangely enough Saramago's oeuvre has been left somewhat aside. This volume aims at filling this gap by providing a diverse range of philosophical perspectives and expositions on Saramago's work. The chapters explore some possible issues arising from his works: from his use of Plato's allegory of the cave to his re-readings of Biblical stories; from his critique and "reinvention" of philosophy of history to his allegorical exploration of alternative histories; from his humorous approach to our being-towards-death to the revolutionary political charge of his fiction. The essays here confront Saramago's fiction with concepts, theories, and suggestions belonging to various philosophical traditions and philosophers including Plato, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Freud, Benjamin, Heidegger, Lacan, Foucault, Patočka, Derrida, Agamben, and Žižek.
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Proteus the philosopher, or reading Saramago as a lover of Wisdom
pp.1-18
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91923-2_1apocalypticism, messianism and Saramago's philosophy of history
pp.19-37
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91923-2_2Saramago, Foucault, and synchronic history
pp.39-59
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91923-2_3pp.61-80
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91923-2_4pp.81-99
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91923-2_5in law, in literature, and in that space between
pp.101-120
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91923-2_6Saramago's re-telling of the "sacrifice of isaac"
pp.121-142
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91923-2_7a space for oppositional discourses from the canonical gospels to the gospel according to jesus Christ
pp.143-161
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91923-2_8for an inclusive humanism
pp.193-210
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91923-2_10Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2018
Pages: 261
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-91922-5
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-91923-2
Full citation:
Salzani Carlo, Vanhoutte Kristof K. P. (2018) Saramago's philosophical heritage. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.