This chapter considers how reading Stevens’s poetry can offer sophisticated accounts of consciousness that make up for shortfalls in contemporary philosophy of mind. The chapter begins by sketching out trends in this area of theory, especially around the influential work of David Chalmers, and the themes of experience, participation, and consciousness of qualitative relations. The chapter then...
Recent treatments of the role of religion in Virginia Woolf’s novels have posited a tension between religiosity and secularism, but this paper explores the conjunction of spirituality and materiality in Woolf’s work. Rather than posing a tension between mainstream religion and materiality, I argue for an unorthodox view of spirituality in which, despite their apparent contradiction, the...
This book presents Maimonides against the religious background that informed his many innovative and influential choices. The book not only analyses the thought of the great religious thinker but contextualizes it in terms of the ‘proto-kabbalistic’ Judaism that preceded him. The book shows how the Judaism that Maimonides knew had come to conceptualize the world as an enchanted universe,...