Filozofija i književnost: "Suputnici" u suvremenoj američkoj misli i praksi
Literature and Philosophy: "Fellow-Travelers" in Contemporary American Thought and Practice

Summary/Abstract: The post-war years have witnessed a sharp ideological antagonism between the disciplines of literature and philosophy. The two disciplines which once stood united at the threshold of our civilization were radically set apart. In philosophy the methods of language analysis and in literary criticism the theories of structuralism and deconstructivism have hermetically closed two of mankind's oldest disciplines into the dark chambers of their own worlds. In the sixties the reaction to this state of mind was set in motion. Younger scholars, non-academic thinkers, and free-lance critics began to question the ability of the new theories in both philosophy and literary criticism to successfully interpret the phenomena of the contemporary world if the two were to continue to operate separately. In the seventies the proponents of the new »unity" argued that both writers (or poets) and philosophers are forced by the nature of their talents to express in their words both their intellectual views and their feelings, and they reminded us that there were great philosophers who were also great writers and also great writers who have left us cases of profound thinking, among them Plato, Pascal, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Rilke, Eliot and others.

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