1. Introduction: The Dawning of Philosophical Aspects in Literature.- Part I: Literature and Political Reflection.- 2. The Richardsonian Republic.- 3. The Fall and the New Paradox of Liberalism.- 4.

The Sovereign and the Virtuoso: What Ibsen's Hedda Gabler Tells Us about Autonomy.- Part II. The Philosophy of Language within Literature.- 5. Exploring Indeterminacy: Jonas Lüscher, Radical Interpretation, and Passing Theories of Love.- 6. Maisie Farange as "Final Arbiter": A Davidsonian Approach to Henry James's What Maisie Knew.- 7.

Free Indirect Discourse in Shakespeare.- Part III. Literature, Ethics, and Moral Psychology.- 8. Crime, Character, and Repentance in Dostoevsky and Dreiser: Varieties of Moral Purpose in Fictional Literature.- 9. Is Virtue Stupid?.- 10.

"By My Own Hand": Why the Good Guys Cannot Always Win.- Part IV. Philosophical Readings.- 11. The Significance of Christoph Gluck's Orphee et Eurydice in Albert Camus' Plague.- 12. Seized by Sensation, Learning by Heart: On Simone Weil's "Essay on the Notion of Reading".- 13.

Klara and the Reader: Artificial Subjectivity in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun.- Part V. Minds Depicted.- 14. Becoming Post-Postmodern: The New Detective Esoteric Mystery.- 15. Top-Down Perception in Proust and Aristotle.- 16.

The Linguistic Mind: Arrival and Our Life Within, and Across, Time.