Costica Bradatan is Associate Professor of Honors at Texas Tech University, USA. He is the author or editor (co-editor) of several books, including Philosophy, Society and The Cunning of History in Eastern Europe (2012) and most recently Dying for Ideas. The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers (2014), and has written for such publications as the New York Times, The New Statesman, Dissent, and Times Literary Supplement.

This book proposes a consideration of philosophy from a literary point of view. It examines some of the literary and rhetorical devices philosophers use in their work, whether deliberately or nor.

This book was originally published as a special issue of The European Legacy.

1. Introduction: Unorthodox Remarks on Philosophy as Literature Costica Bradatan 2. Of Poets and Thinkers. A Conversation on Philosophy, Literature and the Rebuilding of the World Costica Bradatan, Simon Critchley, Giuseppe Mazzotta and Alexander Nehamas 3. Hunting Plato's Agalmata Matthew Sharpe 4. The Nexus of Unity of an Emerson Sentence Kelly Dean Jolley 5. The Concept of Writing Mark Cortes Favis 6. An Inhumanly Wise Shame Brendan Moran 7. Stanley Cavell and Two Pictures of the Voice Adam Gonya 8. Philosophy, Poetry, Parataxis Jonathan Monroe 9. Emphasising the Positive: The Critical Role of Schlegel's Aesthetics James Corby