A Panenmentalist Philosophy of Literature, or How Does Actual Reality Imitate Pure Possibilities?

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2019)
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This book discusses and analyses the contribution of mind-independent individual literary pure possibilities in exploring and understanding actual reality. The relationship between literary imagination, literary possibilities, and actual reality poses a major philosophical problem in the field of metaphysics of literature. In a detailed analysis of some literary masterpieces (by Proust, Kafka, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner), I attempt to demonstrate that actual reality actualizes or “imitates” literary pure possibilities. Hence, such masterpieces should be treated not as romans a clef but, instead, as paradigm-cases on whose basis we grasp and understand actual reality.

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Amihud Gilead
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