Joyce's Ulysses : philosophical perspectives / edited by Philip Kitcher.
Series: Oxford studies in philosophy and literaturePublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 257PagesContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780190842291
- 9780190842284
- 823/.912 23 J89

Includes index.
Between detachment and disgust : Bloom in Hades / Martha Nussbaum -- A portrait of consciousness : Joyce's Ulysses as philosophical psychology / Garry Hagberg -- Feeling Ulysses : an address to the Cyclopean reader / Vicki Mahaffey, Wendy J. Truran -- Ulysses may be a legal fiction / Sam Slote -- Doing Dublin in different voices / David HIlls -- Something rich and strange : Joyce's perspectivism / Philip Kitcher.
"Ulysses is a famously difficult book. Philosophy is well-known as an abstruse subject. Yet thinking about Joyce's great novel in philosophical ways not only provides new approaches for seasoned Joyceans, but also orientation for those perplexed by Ulysses. Six eminent scholars, philosophers and literary critics, combine philosophical and literary analysis to present accessible perspectives on one of the world's masterpieces"--