Giovanni Galli

Criticism as Perspicuous Representation: Wittgenstein, Critical Reasons, and the Cognitive Value of Literature

Two debates in the analytic philosophy of literature have run in parallel: one asks how literary criticism can be rational when critical reasons neither entail nor inductively support the readings they back (Isenberg, Sibley); the other asks whether literature has cognitive value, and is stalled on a dilemma, since ext...