This is an introduction to philosophical literary theory, which begins with classical European and Eastern theories, continuing through Kant, the German Idealists, Marxism, Phenomenology, Deconstruction, to Anglo-American philosophy of language, philosophy of science, Chomskyan linguistics, and cognitive science. It is unique among such introductions in its coverage of non-western and Anglo-American work, including cognitive linguistics, schema and prototype theory, and universalism. [P.C.H.]