This pioneering volume, for the first time, explores the extraordinary Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and his relationship to philosophy.

Edited by Bartholomew Ryan; Giovanbattista Tusa and Antonio Cardiello

Introduction. An Encounter between the Poet and the Philosopher

by Bartholomew Ryan

Exordium

by Fernando Pessoa & Co.

Notes for the Memory of My Master Caeiro

by Álvaro de Campos

Essays on Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy

Spiritual Traditions

1. Antonio Cardiello - Fernando Pessoa's Vision of Neopaganism as Life's Supreme Art

2. Paulo Borges - Fernando Pessoa, Daoism and the Gap:Insubstantiality, Emptiness, Vagueness and Indetermination

3. Jonardon Ganeri - Pessoa's Imaginary India

4. Fabrizio Boscaglia - Pessoa and Islamic Philosophy

Metaphysics and Post-Metaphysics

5. João Constâncio - Nihilism and on Being Nothing in 'The Tobacco Shop'

6. Pedro Duarte - Pessoa and Time

7. Benedetta Zavatta - Pessoa and American Transcendentalism

8. José Gil - Bernardo Soares' Becoming-Landscape

Philosophies of Selfhood

9. Bartholomew Ryan - Voicing Vacillation, Logos and Masks of the Self: Mirroring Kierkegaard and Pessoa

10. Maria Filomena Molder - The Difference between Othering Oneself and Becoming What One is

11. Gianfranco Ferraro - A Hermeneutics of Disquiet: Approaching Pessoa through Foucault

Contemporary Problems and Perspectives

12. J.D. Mininger - Pessoa's The Anarchist Banker and the Logic of Value

13. Bruno Béu - For Your Eyes Only: The Logic of Seeing in Alberto Caeiro's Poetry

14. Michael Marder - Where does Fernando Pessoa Dwell? The Economy and Ecology of the Heteronyms

15. Giovanbattista Tusa - The 'Pessoa' Event: Notes on Philosophy and Poetry

Appendix

16. Jerónimo Pizarro - Pessoa and Philosophy: Texts from the Archive

Critical Bibliography

Index

About the Authors