Foundational Books
Literary Philosophy
Augustine, Confessions
Boethius, On the Consolation of Philosophy
Descartes, René, Meditations on First Philosophy
Du Bois, W. E. B., The Souls of Black Folk
Kierkegaard, Either/Or
Montaigne, Michel de, Essays
Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Gay Science
Pascal, Blaise, Pensées
Plato, Phaedrus
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, Emile, or On Education
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Philosophical Investigations
Philosophical Fiction
Beauvoir, Simone de, The Blood of Others
Beckett, Samuel, Three Novels
Borges, Jorge Luis, Fictions
Calvino, Italo, t-zero
Camus, Albert, The Fall
Coetzee, J. M., Elizabeth Costello
Diderot, Denis, Jacques the Fatalist
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, The Brothers Karamazov
Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man
Kafka, Franz, The Trial
Knausgaard, Karl Ove, My Struggle
Kundera, Milan, Ignorance
Lessing, Doris, The Golden Notebook
McEwan, Ian, Atonement
Morrison, Toni, Song of Solomon
Musil, Robert, The Man Without Qualities
Nabokov, Vladimir, Pale Fire
Nelson, Maggie, Bluets
Proust, Marcel, In Search of Lost Time
Sartre, Jean-Paul, Nausea
Smith, Zadie, On Beauty
Stevens, Wallace, Collected Poems
Wallace, David Foster, Infinite Jest
Woolf, Virginia, The Waves
Philosophers on Literature
Aristotle, Poetics
Hegel, Lectures on Fine Arts
Heidegger, Martin, The Origin of the Work of Art
Kant, Immanuel, Critique of the Power of Judgment
Murdoch, Iris, Existentialists and Mystics
Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Birth of Tragedy
Schopenhauer, Arthur, The World as Will and Representation
Contemporary Writings
Booth, Wayne, The Company We Keep
Cavell, Stanley, Must We Mean What We Say?
Carroll, Noël, Beyond Aesthetics
Danto, Arthur, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace
de Bres, Helena, Artful Fictions
Descombes, Vincent, Proust: Philosophy of the Novel
Felski, Rita, The Uses of Literature
Fisher, Philip, Wonder, the Rainbow, and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich, Production of Presence
Hagberg, Garry, Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory
Hickey, Dave, Air Guitar
Jackson, Jeanne-Marie, The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing
John, Eileen and Dominic Lopes, eds., The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings
Kitcher, Philip, Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach
Kundera, Milan, The Art of the Novel
Lamarque, Peter and Stein Haugom Olsen, Truth, Fiction, and Literature
Landy, Joshua, How to Do Things with Fictions
Moi, Toril, The Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell
Nehamas, Alexander, Nietzsche: Life as Literature
Nguyen, C. Thi, Games: Agency As Art
Nussbaum, Martha, Love's Knowledge
Oeler, Karla, A Grammar of Murder: Violent Scenes and Film Form
Ong, Yi-Ping, The Art of Being: Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist Philosophy
Pavel, Thomas, Fictional Worlds
Peponi, Anastasia-Erasmia, Performance and Culture in Plato's Laws
Perloff, Marjorie, Edge of Irony
Pippin, Robert, Henry James and Modern Moral Life ; Philosophy By Other Means
Rorty, Richard, Contingency, Irony, Solidarity
Serpell, Namwali, Seven Modes of Uncertainty
Tamen, Miguel, Friends of Interpretable Objects
Thomasson, Amie, Fiction and Metaphysics
Vermeule, Blakey, Why Do We Care about Literary Characters?
Walton, Kendall, Mimesis and Make-Believe
Zumhagen-Yekplé, Karen, A Different Order of Difficulty
Zunshine, Lisa, Why We Read Fiction
An Edited Collection from the Initiative in Philosophy and Literature at Stanford
The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age, ed. Michael Saler & Joshua Landy. Stanford University Press, 2009.