Philosophy as World Literature

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is Editor of the American Book Review, Founding Editor of the journal symploke, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute. His recent publications include The End of American Literature (2019), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury, 2019), What’s Wrong with Antitheory? (Bloomsbury, 2020), Philosophy as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2020), Catastrophe and Higher Education (2020), Vinyl Theory (2020), and Happiness (2022).

Acknowledgments
Philosophy as World Literature: An Introduction
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)
Part I World, Worlding, Worldliness
1. The World, the Text, and Philosophy: Reflections on Translation
Brian O’Keeffe (Barnard College, USA)
2. Plato as World Literature
Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina, USA)
3. Worlding Interpretation, or Fanon and the Poetics of Disalienation
Nicole Simek (Whitman College, USA)
4. Alluvia: The Palimpsest of African Memory
Michael Stern (University of Oregon, USA)
Part II Migration and Difference
5. Feminism as World Literature
Robin Truth Goodman (Florida State University, USA)
6. Astonishing Worlding: Montaigne and the New World
Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)
7. Literature of the World, Unite!
Peter Hitchcock (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA)
8. Transatlantic Thoreau: Henry S. Salt, Gandhi, and British Humanitarian Socialism
David M. Robinson (Oregon State University, USA)
Part III Philosophy, Religion, and the East
9. Nietzsche and World Iterature: The Eternal Recurrence of Dualism in Thus Spake Zarathustra
Jeffrey S. Librett (University of Oregon, USA)
10. Asian Philosophy, National Literatures, and World Literature Anthologies
Junjie Luo (Gettysburg College, USA)
11. The Dharma of World Literature
Ranjan Ghosh (University of North Bengal, India)
12. Olive-Red in Orhan Pamuk and Anton Shammas: Deconstruction’s Eastward Dissemination
Henry Sussman (Yale University, USA)
Part IV Philosophy versus World Literature
13. Existentialism as World Literature: De Beauvoir, Heidegger, and Tolstoy
Robert Doran (University of Rochester, USA)
14. Jorge Luis Borges and Philosophy
Efraín Kristal (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
15. Philosophy for the Masses: Haldeman-Julius, Durant, and The Story of Philosophy
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)
List of Contributors
Index