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Imagining and Knowing - The Shape of Fiction (Hardcover)
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Imagining and Knowing - The Shape of Fiction (Hardcover)
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Works of fiction are works of the imagination and for the
imagination. Gregory Currie energetically defends the familiar idea
that fictions are guides to the imagination, a view which has come
under attack in recent years. Responding to a number of challenges
to this standpoint, he argues that within the domain of the
imagination there lies a number of distinct and not well-recognized
capacities which make the connection between fiction and
imagination work. Currie then considers the question of whether in
guiding the imagination fictions may also guide our beliefs, our
outlook, and our habits in directions of learning. It is widely
held that fictions very often provide opportunities for the
acquisition of knowledge and of skills. Without denying that this
sometimes happens, this book explores the difficulties and dangers
of too optimistic a picture of learning from fiction. It is easy to
exaggerate the connection between fiction and learning, to ignore
countervailing tendencies in fiction to create error and ignorance,
and to suppose that claims about learning from fiction require no
serious empirical support. Currie makes a case for modesty about
learning from fiction-reasoning that a lot of what we take to be
learning in this area is itself a kind of pretence, that we are too
optimistic about the psychological and moral insights of authors,
that the case for fiction as a Darwinian adaptation is weak, and
that empathy is both hard to acquire and not always morally
advantageous.
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