{"product_id":"philosophy-of-writing-hardcover","title":"Philosophy of Writing - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Arndt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy write? Why care about writing well?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Most philosophers have seen writing as inferior to speech as a way to move toward truth. Just a few thinkers-including Epictetus, Nietzsche, Arendt, Foucault, Morrison, and Anzaldúa-have said that writing itself can be part of the search for understanding. But how can this be true? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this pathbreaking work, David Arndt argues that our views of writing have been distorted by common concepts of truth, goodness, and beauty, and that we have to critically rethink these concepts in order to better understand in what senses writing can be beautiful, good, and true. He distinguishes several kinds of thought (demonstrative, interpretive, perspectival, and narrative), and explains how they are articulated in different genres of writing (papers, essays, dialogues, and stories). He ends with fifty principles of composition that guide writing at its best. \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy of Writing\u003c\/i\u003e is both a philosophical meditation on writing and a practical handbook on how to write. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis luminous and illuminating book shows-in prose that is clear, graceful, and occasionally witty-how writing has been practiced as a kind of meditation conducive to the search for wisdom. But it also shows how this practice opens the deepest questions of philosophy, and calls into question the meaning of philosophy itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Arndt\u003c\/b\u003e is Visiting Associate Professor of Liberal Arts at Saint Mary's College of California, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 08, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52960104677683,"sku":"9781350473904","price":129.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/irJcSS-Hww9781350473904.webp?v=1768477994","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/philosophy-of-writing-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}