Fernando Pessoa

• Verfasst von: Ganeri, Jonardon [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Fernando Pessoa
• Titelzusatz: imagination and the self
• Verf.angabe: Jonardon Ganeri
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 online resource.
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Philosophical outsiders
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 3, 2024)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-763671-8
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197636688.001.0001
• Schlagwörter: (p)Pessoa, Fernando / (s)Identität / (s)Identitätsphilosophie / (s)Philosophie / (s)Selbst
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Ganeri, Jonardon, 1963 - : Fernando Pessoa - imagination and the self. - New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2024. - viii, 176 Seiten
• Sach-SW: Philosophy
• Sach-SW: Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
• K10plus-PPN: 1900813858
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

In this study of the philosophical thought of Fernando Pessoa, philosopher Jonardon Ganeri highlights connections between Pessoa with earlier philosophical poets, from Keats to Shakespeare and from Coleridge to Whitman. Ganeri emphasises Pessoa's originality in his theory of the human subject as a radical departure from the history of Christian or Islamic thought, highlighting affinities with ideas from works of philosophical fiction in classical India through an examination of Pessoa's own engagement with Indian poetry and philosophy. Ganeri convincingly argues for the need to consider Pessoa's writings as a philosopher, both on their own terms and as in deep conversation with the tradition of Indian thought.

Abstract

"Fernando Pessoa, whose time in Durban briefly overlapped with that of Mahatma Gandhi, was well-read in Indian literature, having in his library the poetry of Rabindranatha Tagore and books about Indian philosophy. He discusses the Upaniṣads and what he calls "the Indian ideal". Indeed, from in of his more esoteric writings it is possible to identify a new variety of panpsychism in the spirit of Coleridge and Whitman"--