Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy

<p><em>The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities </em>is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-philosopher Plato referred centuries ago in the <i>Republic. </i>The book presents eight chapters by four humanities scholars that historically contextualize and cross-interpret aspects of the quarrel in question. The authors share the view that although poets and philosophers continually quarrel a harmonious union between the two groups is achievable in a manner promising application to a variety of contemporary cultural-political and aesthetic debates all of which have implications for the current status of the humanities. </p>