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Brett Bourbon, Renita Murimi
This book offers a novel conceptual framework that views information as a form of gossip. It provides a nuanced understanding of the "grammar" of gossip that permeates both online and…
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Brett Bourbon
Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description demonstrates that Elizabeth Bennet and her creator are misunderstood, and often unrecognized, geniuses of moral philosophy, but not simply because of their virtue…
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Brett Bourbon, Miguel Tamen
Thinking with Words: A Literary Groundwork provides a unique foundational introduction to the depths and glories of literature and its study. Essential reading for anyone interested in not just literature…
Locating poetry in a philosophy of the everyday, Brett Bourbon continues a tradition of attention to logic in everyday utterances through Wittgenstein, Austin, Quine, and Cavell, arguing that poems are…
Connects aesthetics and poetics to everyday utterances and meditations which progresses a philosophy of the everyday with attention to logic and ethics.
A study of literature as a form of philosophy of language and mind.