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E. M. DADLEZ, A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature edited by hagberg, garry l. and walter jost, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 70, Issue 2, May 2012, Pages 237–239, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2012.01515_4.x
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hagberg, garry l. and walter jost, eds. A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature. Chichester, UK:Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, xiv + 552 pp., $204.95 cloth.
Garry Hagberg and Walter Jost have provided us with a fat, satisfying companion to the philosophy of literature that, while it does not entirely fulfill all of the drum‐rolling prognostications that have been made on its behalf, certainly provides us with a genuinely comprehensive treatment of most of the subjects and problems in the philosophy of literature that have been on the table for several decades (in some cases, for millennia), as well as some stellar contributions by major players in the field.
One of the few disappointments is that four of the twenty‐eight essays are not newly commissioned at all. The Danto, Lear, Nussbaum, and Cavell papers are reprints from the eighties and early nineties. While every one of these is worth reading again, and more than once, it rather goes without saying that we would all like to hear more from these luminaries about what they think now, and about how their views might have changed (or not) over the past twenty years. Alas, not in this volume.
