Literature and truth : : imaginative writing as a medium for ideas / / by Richard Lansdown.
In Literature and Truth Richard Lansdown continues a discussion concerning the truth-bearing status of imaginative literature that pre-dates Plato. The book opens with a general survey of contemporary approaches in philosophical aesthetics, and a discussion of the contribution to the question made b...
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| Superior document: | Costerus New Series, Volume 222 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2018. ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Costerus ;
Volume 222. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (222 pages). |
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| Summary: | In Literature and Truth Richard Lansdown continues a discussion concerning the truth-bearing status of imaginative literature that pre-dates Plato. The book opens with a general survey of contemporary approaches in philosophical aesthetics, and a discussion of the contribution to the question made by British philosopher R. G. Collingwood in particular, in his Speculum Mentis . It then offers six case-studies from the Romantic era to the contemporary one as to how imaginative authors have variously dealt with bodies of discursive thought such as Stoicism, Christianity, evolution, humanism, and socialism. It concludes with a reading going in the other direction, in which the diary of Bronislaw Malinowski is seen in terms of the anthropologist’s reading habits during his legendary Trobriander fieldwork. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004356851 |
| ISSN: | 0165-9618 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Richard Lansdown. |