Philosophy as World Literature

What does it mean to consider philosophy as a species of not just literature but <i>world</i>literature? The authors in this collection explore philosophy through the lens of the worlding of literature--that is how philosophy is connected and reconnected through global literary networks that cross borders mix stories and speak in translation and dialect.<br/><br/> Historically much of the world's most influential philosophy from Plato's dialogues and Augustine's confessions to Nietzsche's aphorisms and Sartre's plays was a form of literature--as well as by extension a form of world literature. <i>Philosophy as World Literature</i> offers a variety of accounts of how the worlding of literature problematizes the national categorizing of philosophy and brings new meanings and challenges to the discussion of intersections between philosophy and literature.