Philosophers have struggled to explain how literary fiction can be such an important source of insight into the human condition. John Gibson offers a novel and

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In The Value of Literature, Rafe McGregor employs a unique approach – the combination of philosophical work on value theory and critical work on the relations

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According to the literary humanist, works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of their production and which is the sa