Understanding Fiction
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The book addresses the questions how literature can convey knowledge and how literary meaning can arise in the face of the fact that fictional texts waive the usual claim to truth. Based on the interdisciplinary cooperation of literary scholars and analytic philosophers, the present anthology attempts a) to analyze the possibility and conditions of gaining know - ledge through literature, and b) to apply, in a fruitful way, philosophical theories of meaning and interpretation to the constitution of meaning within the language of literature. The project is guided by the hypothesis that the…mehr

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The book addresses the questions how literature can convey knowledge and how literary meaning can arise in the face of the fact that fictional texts waive the usual claim to truth. Based on the interdisciplinary cooperation of literary scholars and analytic philosophers, the present anthology attempts a) to analyze the possibility and conditions of gaining know - ledge through literature, and b) to apply, in a fruitful way, philosophical theories of meaning and interpretation to the constitution of meaning within the language of literature. The project is guided by the hypothesis that the cognitive function of literature cannot be understood without such fundamental modelings of the complex interaction of meaning, truth and knowledge.
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Autorenporträt
Jürgen Daiber, born 1961, studied German literature and computer linguistics in Heidelberg and Trier; since 2003 Professor of Modern German Literature in Regensburg. Areas of specialization: Poetics of knowledge, romanticism, literature and new media Eva-Maria Konrad, born 1982, studied German literature and Philosophy in Tübingen and Regensburg; since 2007 research associate and lecturer at the chair for Modern German Literature in Regensburg. Areas of specialization: Theories of fiction, literature and knowledge Thomas Petraschka, born 1982, studied German literature, Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science in Regensburg; since 2008 research associate and lecturer at the chair for Modern German Literature in Regensburg. Areas of specialization: Theory of literature, in particular theory and history of hermeneutics Hans Rott, born 1959, studied Philosophy, Logic, Linguistics and Mathematics at the LMU in Munich; since 1999 Professor of Philosophy in Regensburg. Areas of specialization: Philosophical logic, formal epistemology, philosophy of language