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How to Do Things with Fictions (Hardcover, New)
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How to Do Things with Fictions (Hardcover, New)
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Why did Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad
arguments? Why do we root for criminal heroes? In mummy movies, why
is the skeptic always the first to go? Why don't stage magicians
even pretend to summon spirits any more? Why is Samuel Beckett so
confusing? And why is it worth trying to answer questions like
these? Witty and approachable, How to Do Things with Fictions
challenges the widespread assumption that literary texts must be
informative or morally improving to be of any real benefit. It
reveals that authors are often best thought of not as entertainers
or as educators but as personal trainers of the brain, putting
their willing readers through exercises that fortify their mental
capacities. This book is both deeply insightful and rigorously
argued, and the journey delivers plenty of surprises along the
way-that moral readings of literature can be positively dangerous;
that the parables were deliberately designed to be misunderstood;
that Plato knowingly sets his main character up for a fall; that we
can sustain our beliefs even when we suspect them to be illusions;
and more. Perhaps best of all, though, the book is written with
uncommon verve and a light touch that will satisfy the generally
educated public and the specialist reader alike. In How to Do
things with Fictions, Joshua Landy convincingly shows how the
imaginative writings sitting on our shelves may well be our best
allies in the struggle for more rigorous thinking, deeper faith,
greater peace of mind, and richer experience.
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