Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Paisley Livingston makes a novel and valuable contribution both to the study of literature and to the theory of rationality." Jon Elster"This book is a major contribution to the study of literature. It challenges both traditional dogmatic approaches and fashionable post-structuralist views. The alternative it offers is refreshingly constructive and thoroughly innovative....[W]e should be grateful to Livingston for bringing home such precious gifts of information, presented in remarkably lucid language....It is not possible in this short review to do justice to the exceptional richness of Livingston's book, and the summary presented here fails to capture the depth of insight offered by its author....If, by some miraculous event, literary scholarship comes to realize the importance of the issue and to convince itself at last that here, in the analysis (and not just repudiation) of rationality, resides one of its most promising and most rewarding domains, it is to Paisley Livingston that it may turn for instruction and guidance." Willie Van Peer, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature
Synopsis
This interdisciplinary study establishes connections between divergent approaches to rationality in philosophy, social science, and literary studies.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-250) and index.