Philosophy and Literature: A Discussion on the Two Contiguous Facets of the Concept of ‘Truth’ About Knowledge

Abstract

I certainly feel myself to be in a perplexing condition of an angst given the fact that there already exists a sizeable oeuvre of writings on the philosophy of literature and demonstration of such a relationship in varied literary and performative works and representations. Any attempt to begin a discussion on the very category of ‘literature’ is, more often than not, confounding since it has been looked at and approached in different ways that include conceptualizations like ‘criticism’, ‘metacriticism’, ‘literary criticism’, ‘critical theory’, ‘critical philosophy’, ‘literary history’, ‘literary theory’, ‘poetics' ‘hermeneutics’ and so on. Again, literature has also been analysed from multifarious vantage points including those of the social, sometimes the sociological, the historical, the political, the cultural, the psychological, the psychoanalytical, the linguistic, the rhetorical and the stylistic.