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Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975 - Softcover

Lemahieu, Michael

 
9780190623975: Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0190623977 ISBN 13: 9780190623975
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 2016

Synopsis

Fictions of Fact and Value argues that the philosophy of logical positivism, considered the antithesis of literary postmodernism, exerts a determining influence on the development of American fiction in the three decades following 1945. Two particular postwar literary preoccupations derive from logical positivist philosophy: the fact/value problem and the correlative distinction between sense and nonsense. Even as postwar writers responded to logical positivism as a threat to the imagination, their works often manifest its influence, specifically with regard to 'emotive' or 'meaningless' terms. Far from a straightforward history of ideas, Michael LeMahieu charts a genealogy that is often erased in the very texts where it registers and disowned by the very authors that it includes. Reading works by John Barth, Saul Bellow, Don DeLillo, Iris Murdoch, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Fictions of Fact and Value will interest anyone concerned with postmodernism, modernist studies, analytic philosophy, or the history of ideas.

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About the Author

Michael LeMahieu is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0190623977
ISBN 13 
9780190623975
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256