Is Literary Fiction about Truth or Meaning?
In this paper, I develop an alternative account of the novel’s cognitive value, based on the distinction Hannah Arendt made between truth (the result of the ‘need to know’) and meaning (the result of the ‘need to think’), claiming that the latter is better able to explain the novel’s cognitive va...
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| Language: | English |
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Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica (Dutch Association of Aesthetics)
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Aesthetic Investigations |
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| Online Access: | https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/article/view/11957 |