Literature and Philosophy: Research Methods, Forms, and Categories of Thought (2025)

Literary fiction, in its millennia of development, has developed a separate language, referred to as artistic language, from which representatives of other fields of cultural activity--philosophers in particular--have drawn extensively for centuries. Reflecting on culture without considering the area of interaction and interfacing between fiction and philosophy, that crucial component of culture, would be incomplete, for it omits essential manifestations. Thus the need for systematic research at the borderline between literary studies and philosophical sciences, aimed at a methodological and theoretical broadening of the field of analysis of language and mind precisely from literary and philosophical perspectives. Research conducted where the two fields conjoin, oriented towards developing innovative, useful research tools for both disciplines, corresponds through its inter- and transdisciplinary character to the idea of broadening and transgressing boundaries among the humanities.