Academic Writing, Philosophy and Genre

This book investigates how philosophical texts display a variety of literary forms and explores philosophical writing and the relation of philosophy to literature and reading. It explores the many different philosophical genres that have developed including letters, the treatise, the confession, the meditation, the allegory, the essay, the soliloquy, the symposium, the consolation, the commentary, the disputation, and the dialogue, to name a few. It also demonstrates how greater attention is now paid to the relations between academic writing, genres and philosophy, and also to questions of style, genre, form and their historicity and materiality.