Overview
The first book to cover Michael Boylan’s popular work with fictive narrative that acts as philosophy
Shows readers how to bring fictive narrative into their teaching or their research
Brings together top scholars who have written about the links between narrative and philosophy
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theory
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Front Matter
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The De Anima Novels
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Front Matter
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The Archē Novels
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Front Matter
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The Archē Novels
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Using Fictive Narrative Philosophy to Teach Philosophy
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Front Matter
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Using Fictive Narrative Philosophy to Teach Philosophy
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About this book
This volume offers original essays exploring what ‘fictive narrative philosophy’ might mean in the research and teaching of philosophy. The first part of the book presents theoretical essays that examine Boylan’s recent books: Teaching Ethics with Three Philosophical Novels and Fictive Narrative Philosophy: How Literature can Act as Philosophy. The second and third part offer essays on how Boylan executes his theory in the practice within his novels from his two series De Anima and Archē. The book clearly shows the unique aspects of the fictive narrative philosophy approach. First, it makes story-telling accessible to wide audiences. Second, story-telling techniques invoke devices that can set out complicated existential problems to the reader that offer an additional approach to thorny problems through the presentation of lived experience. Third, the discussion of these devices is a way to explore philosophical problems in a way that many can profit from. The book concludes with an essay in which Boylan responds to the critical challenges set out in Part One and the practical criticism set out in Parts Two and Three. Boylan addresses the key claims made by his objectors and defends his position. He engages with the authors in the way his theory is matched against his actual novels. This is useful reading for both philosophers and professors of literature teaching introductory as well as upper-level courses in the fields of philosophy, literature and criticism.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Wanda Teays is a Professor of Philosophy at Mount Saint Mary’s University In Los Angeles. She is the author of Doctors and Torture; Business Ethics Through Movies: A Case Study Approach; Seeing the Light: Exploring Ethics Through Movies; and Second Thoughts: Critical Thinking for a Diverse Society. She is editor of: Analyzing Violence Against Women; and Ethics in the AI, Technology, and Information Age (co-edited with Michael Boylan); Global Bioethics & Human Rights: Contemporary Perspectives, 2nd ed. (co-edited with Alison Dundes Renteln); and Bioethics, Justice & Health Care (co-edited with Laura M. Purdy).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reshaping Philosophy: Michael Boylan’s Narrative Fiction
Editors: Wanda Teays
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99265-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99264-4Published: 26 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99267-5Published: 27 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99265-1Published: 25 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 269
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethics, Literary Theory