The Edges of Fiction
What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality - this was the thesis of Aristotle's Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how the unexpected arises, happiness transforms into unhappiness and ignorance into knowledge.In the modern age, argues Rancière, this fictional rationality was developed in new ways. The social sciences extended the model of causal linkage to all spheres of human action, seeking to show us how causes produce their effects by inverting appe…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5095-3047-2
- EAN: 9781509530472
- Produktnummer: 33096506
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 180 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 264 KB
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Jacques Rancière is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Paris-St. Denis.
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