Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism

Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may be called a “critical philosophy in the condition of modernism”. Its most important and original contribution to both disciplines is a self-conscious reflection on possible modes of writing philosophy today, and a systematic comparison with what happened in literary modernism at the beginning of the twentieth-century. The volume is divided into six sections, where internationally renowned scholars discuss such pressing topics as the role of an unreliable narrator in a major philosophical treatise, the different mediums of art-production and how these impact on our perception of the Work itself, the role of narrative in animal ethics and the filmic adaption of a Modernist classic. 

Ana Falcato holds a Ph.D in Philosophy from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal . Between 2013 and 2015 she was Humboldt Research Fellow at the Johannes-Gutenberg University and the University of Oxford. Her work has appeared in Studies in the Novel, Kant-Studien, Wittgenstein-Studien and Daimon: Revista International de Filosofía. She is currently a research fellow at IFILNOVA, where she conducts a project about the novelistic and critical work of J.M. Coetzee. Antonio Cardiello holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has joint responsibility for the digitization of Fernando Pessoa’s Private Library, is co-author of A Biblioteca de Fernando Pessoa (2010), Os Objectos de Fernando Pessoa (2013) and of the first critical edition of Obra Completa de Álvaro de Campos (2014). He currently works as scientific consultant for Fernando Pessoa House.