Philosophy as Fiction seeks to account for the peculiar power of philosophical literature by taking as its case study the paradigmatic generic hybrid of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. At once philosophical--in that it presents claims, and even deploys arguments concer
Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2004
- Category
- Fiction
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