Joshua Landy
How to Do Things with Fictions
Joshua Landy
How to Do Things with Fictions
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How to Do Things with Fictions considers how fictional works, ranging from Chaucer to Beckett, subject readers to a series of exercises meant to fortify their mental capacities.
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How to Do Things with Fictions considers how fictional works, ranging from Chaucer to Beckett, subject readers to a series of exercises meant to fortify their mental capacities.
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- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 268
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
- Gewicht: 461g
- ISBN-13: 9780199378203
- ISBN-10: 0199378207
- Artikelnr.: 48810697
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 268
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
- Gewicht: 461g
- ISBN-13: 9780199378203
- ISBN-10: 0199378207
- Artikelnr.: 48810697
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Joshua Landy is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he co-founded and co-directs the Initiative in Philosophy and Literature. He is author of Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust and coeditor, with Michael Saler, of The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fiction
Formative Fictions
The Temporality of the Reading Experience
In Spite of Everything, a Role for Meaning
A Polite Aside to Historians
The Value of Formative Fictions
PART ONE-CLEARING THE GROUND
Chapter One-Chaucer: Ambiguity and Ethics
Prudence or Oneiromancy?
A Parody of Didacticism
Preaching to the Converted
The Asymmetry of 'Imaginative Resistance'
Virtue Ethics and Gossip
Qualifications
Positive Views
PART TWO- ENCHANTMENT AND RE-ENCHANTMENT
Chapter Two-Mark: Metaphor and Faith
Rhetorical Theories
Five Variables, Six Readings
Deliberate Opacity
The Vision of Mark
From Him Who Has Not
To Him Who Has
The Syrophenician Woman
The Formative Circle
Metaphor and Faith
Theological Ramifications
A Parable about Parables
Getting It Wrong By Getting It Right
Coda: The Secular Kingdom
Appendix: "Le Cygne"
Chapter Three-Mallarmé: Irony and Enchantment
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
Exorcisms and Experiments
Science and Wonder
Lucid Illusions
Stéphane Mallarmé
The Spell of Poetry
Setting the Scene
A Replacement Faith
How to Do Things with Verses
A Corner of Order
The Magic of Rhyme
A Training in Enchantment
A Sequence of States
The Birth of Modernism from the Spirit of Re-Enchantment
PART THREE-LOGIC AND ANTI-LOGIC
Chapter Four-Plato: Fallacy and Logic
A Platonic Coccyx
Ascent and Dissent
The Developmental Hypothesis
Dubious Dialectic
Pericles, Socrates and Plato
The Gorgias Unravels
The Uses of Oratory
Was Gorgias Refuted?
Spiritual Exercises: Seven Points in Conclusion
Appendix: Just How Bad is the Pericles Argument?
Chapter Five-Beckett: Antithesis and Tranquillity
Bringing Philosophy to an End
Ataraxia
Antilogoi
One Step Forward
Finding the Self to Lose the Self
An Irreducible Singleness
Res Cogitans
Solutions and Dissolutions
Two Failures
"I confess, I give in, there is I"
Negative Anthropology
The Beckettian Spiral
An End to Everything?
Fail Better
Glimpses of the Ideal
Two Caveats
Coda
Works Cited
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fiction
Formative Fictions
The Temporality of the Reading Experience
In Spite of Everything, a Role for Meaning
A Polite Aside to Historians
The Value of Formative Fictions
PART ONE-CLEARING THE GROUND
Chapter One-Chaucer: Ambiguity and Ethics
Prudence or Oneiromancy?
A Parody of Didacticism
Preaching to the Converted
The Asymmetry of 'Imaginative Resistance'
Virtue Ethics and Gossip
Qualifications
Positive Views
PART TWO- ENCHANTMENT AND RE-ENCHANTMENT
Chapter Two-Mark: Metaphor and Faith
Rhetorical Theories
Five Variables, Six Readings
Deliberate Opacity
The Vision of Mark
From Him Who Has Not
To Him Who Has
The Syrophenician Woman
The Formative Circle
Metaphor and Faith
Theological Ramifications
A Parable about Parables
Getting It Wrong By Getting It Right
Coda: The Secular Kingdom
Appendix: "Le Cygne"
Chapter Three-Mallarmé: Irony and Enchantment
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
Exorcisms and Experiments
Science and Wonder
Lucid Illusions
Stéphane Mallarmé
The Spell of Poetry
Setting the Scene
A Replacement Faith
How to Do Things with Verses
A Corner of Order
The Magic of Rhyme
A Training in Enchantment
A Sequence of States
The Birth of Modernism from the Spirit of Re-Enchantment
PART THREE-LOGIC AND ANTI-LOGIC
Chapter Four-Plato: Fallacy and Logic
A Platonic Coccyx
Ascent and Dissent
The Developmental Hypothesis
Dubious Dialectic
Pericles, Socrates and Plato
The Gorgias Unravels
The Uses of Oratory
Was Gorgias Refuted?
Spiritual Exercises: Seven Points in Conclusion
Appendix: Just How Bad is the Pericles Argument?
Chapter Five-Beckett: Antithesis and Tranquillity
Bringing Philosophy to an End
Ataraxia
Antilogoi
One Step Forward
Finding the Self to Lose the Self
An Irreducible Singleness
Res Cogitans
Solutions and Dissolutions
Two Failures
"I confess, I give in, there is I"
Negative Anthropology
The Beckettian Spiral
An End to Everything?
Fail Better
Glimpses of the Ideal
Two Caveats
Coda
Works Cited
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fiction
Formative Fictions
The Temporality of the Reading Experience
In Spite of Everything, a Role for Meaning
A Polite Aside to Historians
The Value of Formative Fictions
PART ONE-CLEARING THE GROUND
Chapter One-Chaucer: Ambiguity and Ethics
Prudence or Oneiromancy?
A Parody of Didacticism
Preaching to the Converted
The Asymmetry of 'Imaginative Resistance'
Virtue Ethics and Gossip
Qualifications
Positive Views
PART TWO- ENCHANTMENT AND RE-ENCHANTMENT
Chapter Two-Mark: Metaphor and Faith
Rhetorical Theories
Five Variables, Six Readings
Deliberate Opacity
The Vision of Mark
From Him Who Has Not
To Him Who Has
The Syrophenician Woman
The Formative Circle
Metaphor and Faith
Theological Ramifications
A Parable about Parables
Getting It Wrong By Getting It Right
Coda: The Secular Kingdom
Appendix: "Le Cygne"
Chapter Three-Mallarmé: Irony and Enchantment
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
Exorcisms and Experiments
Science and Wonder
Lucid Illusions
Stéphane Mallarmé
The Spell of Poetry
Setting the Scene
A Replacement Faith
How to Do Things with Verses
A Corner of Order
The Magic of Rhyme
A Training in Enchantment
A Sequence of States
The Birth of Modernism from the Spirit of Re-Enchantment
PART THREE-LOGIC AND ANTI-LOGIC
Chapter Four-Plato: Fallacy and Logic
A Platonic Coccyx
Ascent and Dissent
The Developmental Hypothesis
Dubious Dialectic
Pericles, Socrates and Plato
The Gorgias Unravels
The Uses of Oratory
Was Gorgias Refuted?
Spiritual Exercises: Seven Points in Conclusion
Appendix: Just How Bad is the Pericles Argument?
Chapter Five-Beckett: Antithesis and Tranquillity
Bringing Philosophy to an End
Ataraxia
Antilogoi
One Step Forward
Finding the Self to Lose the Self
An Irreducible Singleness
Res Cogitans
Solutions and Dissolutions
Two Failures
"I confess, I give in, there is I"
Negative Anthropology
The Beckettian Spiral
An End to Everything?
Fail Better
Glimpses of the Ideal
Two Caveats
Coda
Works Cited
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fiction
Formative Fictions
The Temporality of the Reading Experience
In Spite of Everything, a Role for Meaning
A Polite Aside to Historians
The Value of Formative Fictions
PART ONE-CLEARING THE GROUND
Chapter One-Chaucer: Ambiguity and Ethics
Prudence or Oneiromancy?
A Parody of Didacticism
Preaching to the Converted
The Asymmetry of 'Imaginative Resistance'
Virtue Ethics and Gossip
Qualifications
Positive Views
PART TWO- ENCHANTMENT AND RE-ENCHANTMENT
Chapter Two-Mark: Metaphor and Faith
Rhetorical Theories
Five Variables, Six Readings
Deliberate Opacity
The Vision of Mark
From Him Who Has Not
To Him Who Has
The Syrophenician Woman
The Formative Circle
Metaphor and Faith
Theological Ramifications
A Parable about Parables
Getting It Wrong By Getting It Right
Coda: The Secular Kingdom
Appendix: "Le Cygne"
Chapter Three-Mallarmé: Irony and Enchantment
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
Exorcisms and Experiments
Science and Wonder
Lucid Illusions
Stéphane Mallarmé
The Spell of Poetry
Setting the Scene
A Replacement Faith
How to Do Things with Verses
A Corner of Order
The Magic of Rhyme
A Training in Enchantment
A Sequence of States
The Birth of Modernism from the Spirit of Re-Enchantment
PART THREE-LOGIC AND ANTI-LOGIC
Chapter Four-Plato: Fallacy and Logic
A Platonic Coccyx
Ascent and Dissent
The Developmental Hypothesis
Dubious Dialectic
Pericles, Socrates and Plato
The Gorgias Unravels
The Uses of Oratory
Was Gorgias Refuted?
Spiritual Exercises: Seven Points in Conclusion
Appendix: Just How Bad is the Pericles Argument?
Chapter Five-Beckett: Antithesis and Tranquillity
Bringing Philosophy to an End
Ataraxia
Antilogoi
One Step Forward
Finding the Self to Lose the Self
An Irreducible Singleness
Res Cogitans
Solutions and Dissolutions
Two Failures
"I confess, I give in, there is I"
Negative Anthropology
The Beckettian Spiral
An End to Everything?
Fail Better
Glimpses of the Ideal
Two Caveats
Coda
Works Cited