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|This wide-ranging collection of Bertrand Russell's essays is available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1961. Its first section deals with the books which influenced Russell in his youth. The works of Shelley, Turgenev, Ibsen and Gibbon are among those selected for discussion. The second part is devoted to essays on politics and education. The third section is one of divertissements and parables, which also includes some rare descriptions of Russell's dreams. Finally there are eleven essays and speeches concerned with peace and war, which include some of Russell's most famous pronouncements on nuclear warfare and international tension.| |Fact and Fiction provides a valuable insight into the range of interests and depth of convictions of one of this century's greatest philosophers. This paperback edition includes a new introduction by John G. Slater, University of Toronto.|--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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File Name:Foucault and Fiction.pdf Posted By:Timothy O'Leary Published on 2011-10-20 by Bloomsbury Publishing Status : AVAILABLE Ratting: 4.6 of 5 | PDF File Ready to download

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Foucault and Fiction develops a unique approach to thinking about the power of literature by drawing upon the often neglected concept of experience in Foucault's work. For Foucault, an 'experience book' is a book which transforms our experience by acting on us in a direct and unsettling way. Timothy O'Leary develops and applies this concept to literary texts. Starting from the premise that works of literature are capable of having a profound effect on their audiences, he suggests a way of understanding how these effects are produced. Offering extended analyses of Irish writers such as Swift, Joyce, Beckett, Friel and Heaney, O'Leary draws on Foucault's concept of experience as well as the work of Dewey, Gadamer, and Deleuze and Guattari. Combining these resources, he proposes a new approach to the ethics of literature. Of interest to readers in both philosophy and literary studies, this book offers new insights into Foucault's mature philosophy and an improved understanding of what it is to read and be affected by a work of fiction.

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File Name:The Nature of Fiction.pdf Posted By:Gregory Currie Published on 1990-10-26 by Cambridge University Press Status : AVAILABLE Ratting: 4.6 of 5 | PDF File Ready to download

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This important book provides a theory about the nature of fiction, and about the relation between the author, the reader and the fictional text. The approach is philosophical: that is to say, the author offers an account of key concepts such as fictional truth, fictional characters, and fiction itself. The book argues that the concept of fiction can be explained partly in terms of communicative intentions, partly in terms of a condition which excludes relations of counterfactual dependence between the world and the text. This communicative model is then applied to the following problems: how can something be 'true in the story' without being explicitly stated in the text? In what ways does interpreting a fictional story depend upon grasping its author's intentions? Is there always a unique best interpretation of a fictional text? What is the correct semantics for fictional names? What is the nature of our emotional response to a fictional work? In answering these questions the author explores the complex interaction between author, reader, and text. This interaction requires the reader to construct a 'fictional author' - a character in the story whose personality, beliefs and emotional states must be interpreted if the reader is to grasp the meaning of the work.

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|This wide-ranging collection of Bertrand Russell's essays is available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1961. Its first section deals with the books which influenced Russell in his youth. The works of Shelley, Turgenev, Ibsen and Gibbon are among those selected for discussion. The second part is devoted to essays on politics and education. The third section is one of divertissements and parables, which also includes some rare descriptions of Russell's dreams. Finally there are eleven essays and speeches concerned with peace and war, which include some of Russell's most famous pronouncements on nuclear warfare and international tension.| |Fact and Fiction provides a valuable insight into the range of interests and depth of convictions of one of this century's greatest philosophers. This paperback edition includes a new introduction by John G. Slater, University of Toronto.|--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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