This book talks about the dialogue between philosophy and literature, literary philosophies, philosophical literatures, incursions and influences between both horizons. For the lover of truth, the philosopher, literature becomes an object of endless desire. The dialogues, the shared aspects, the explorations and the mutual influences are some of the aspects of the matter that can be satisfied with this book.

Most of the studies gathered here are dedicated to authors and works of the last four centuries, where the debate between philosophy and literature has acquired the aspect of Modernity and its possible "overcoming."

The reader will find in these pages an overview of Latin American literature and philosophy; a dialogue between philosophy and literature, in particular between the conception of the self and the unstable concepts of Carlos Pereda and the conception of Milan Kundera; a contextual study of the ideas expressed by Henry More in his philosophical poem entitled Psychozoia; an investigation into the presence in Hume's philosophy of literary elements that only illustrate or exemplify philosophical elements but are part of the theory itself; a reflection on the epistolary relationship between Edmund Husserl and Hugo von Hoffmansthal, and the affinity of the phenomenological method and pure aesthetic art; an examination of the link between genius and dilettante in Marcel Proust's Recherche; an analysis of Bartleby, the clerk, by Herman Melvile, in which the critical character of the main character stands out; a reflection on reality, relativism and metaphor in an ontological sense regarding “The Nephew of Rameau”, by Diderot, and the thought of Plato, a proposal for the epistemology of the imagination that focuses on the theme of literature in Western history based on an analysis of the Great Books of the Western World collection; a consideration of Benjamín García-Hernández's proposal regarding the intertextual relationship between the Metaphysical Meditations of René Descartes and Plautus's Amphitrion, and three possible ways of influence of Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe on Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Collaborating on this book are Laura Benítez Grobet, Mario Edmundo Chávez Tortolero, Gerardo de la Fuente Lora, Raúl Jair García Torres, Rogelio Laguna, Daniela León Gutiérrez, Carlos Oliva Mendoza, Jorge Armando Reyes Escobar, Teresa Rodríguez, Luis Mauricio Rodríguez Salazar, and Humberto Rosas Vargas.