The subject of literature, the subject of philosophy: Plato, Wittgenstein, and Kierkegaard's reading of Abraham.
Though Plato, famously, had Socrates ban the poets from his republic while Wittgenstein seems to aspire to a style of philosophical writing that approaches the literary, there is a troubling similarity between them in their elision of the self as a self. Saying what he means in the mode of the philo...
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