Philosophy of Writing
Why write? Why care about writing well? Most philosophers have seen writing as inferior to speech as a way to move toward truth. Just a few thinkers—including Epictetus, Nietzsche, Arendt, Foucault, Morrison, and Anzaldúa—have said that writing itself can be part of the search for understanding. But...
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| description | Why write? Why care about writing well? Most philosophers have seen writing as inferior to speech as a way to move toward truth. Just a few thinkers—including Epictetus, Nietzsche, Arendt, Foucault, Morrison, and Anzaldúa—have said that writing itself can be part of the search for understanding. But how can this be true? In this pathbreaking work, David Arndt argues that our views of writing have been distorted by common concepts of truth, goodness, and beauty, and that we have to critically rethink these concepts in order to better understand in what senses writing can be beautiful, good, and true. He distinguishes several kinds of thought (demonstrative, interpretive, perspectival, and narrative), and explains how they are articulated in different genres of writing (papers, essays, dialogues, and stories). He ends with fifty principles of composition that guide writing at its best. Philosophy of Writing is both a philosophical meditation on writing and a practical handbook on how to write. This luminous and illuminating book shows—in prose that is clear, graceful, and occasionally witty—how writing has been practiced as a kind of meditation conducive to the search for wisdom. But it also shows how this practice opens the deepest questions of philosophy, and calls into question the meaning of philosophy itself. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1756962026-04-20T08:13:41Z Philosophy of Writing Arndt, David Philosophy of truth Philosophy of literature Philosophical writing thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general::CBW Writing and editing guides thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFA Philosophy of language thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning::CJC Language learning: specific skills::CJCW Language learning: writing skills thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general::CBV Creative writing and creative writing guides Why write? Why care about writing well? Most philosophers have seen writing as inferior to speech as a way to move toward truth. Just a few thinkers—including Epictetus, Nietzsche, Arendt, Foucault, Morrison, and Anzaldúa—have said that writing itself can be part of the search for understanding. But how can this be true? In this pathbreaking work, David Arndt argues that our views of writing have been distorted by common concepts of truth, goodness, and beauty, and that we have to critically rethink these concepts in order to better understand in what senses writing can be beautiful, good, and true. He distinguishes several kinds of thought (demonstrative, interpretive, perspectival, and narrative), and explains how they are articulated in different genres of writing (papers, essays, dialogues, and stories). He ends with fifty principles of composition that guide writing at its best. Philosophy of Writing is both a philosophical meditation on writing and a practical handbook on how to write. This luminous and illuminating book shows—in prose that is clear, graceful, and occasionally witty—how writing has been practiced as a kind of meditation conducive to the search for wisdom. But it also shows how this practice opens the deepest questions of philosophy, and calls into question the meaning of philosophy itself. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. 2026-04-20T08:13:40Z 2026-04-20T08:13:40Z 2026-04-16T09:05:46Z 2025 book ONIX_20260415T184305_9781350473928_30 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112285 9781350473928 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175696 eng open access Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bloomsbury Academic b7fec79e-c133-4cb3-9544-88060a4d4e06 9781350473928 Bloomsbury Academic 224 London open access |
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