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Silence’s Paradox
The following essay argues that Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 novel Silence, elucidates a corrective to pragmatist deliberative philosophy. First, it begins with the book’s protagonist Rodrigues in his eventual role evaluating banned Christian objects to prevent them from entering seventeenth century Japan. While these actions p...
Timothy Stanley
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2026
Literature as Moral Philosophy
This collection of incisive essays is a nuanced interrogation of the suitability of literature as a vehicle for moral philosophy - a complex debate at the intersection of ethics and aesthetics. What connects these different perspectives is a central question: is literature is an appropriate medium for approaching and...
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Sep 2026
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...
Giovanni Galli
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The silence in a radical field.
This first-person account interrogates the silence of mainstream community psychology in the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We confront the gap between the field's stated commitments to social justice, prevention, and liberation, and its complicity through inaction. Silence is not neutrality but alignment with p...
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Flattering the Demos
This volume brings together reflections on the relationship between politics and storytelling, especially within the democratic context. Examples are drawn from the ancient and modern worlds, from classical Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to television, science fiction, and comic books, in order to examine the relationsh...
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The Politics of Form: Performance, Curation, and Reparative Reading in Mad Narratives
This paper examines the aesthetic and formal strategies Kate Millett, and Madison Clell, Susannah Cahalan, authors of mad narratives including The Looney Bin Trip (1990), Cuckoo (2002), Brain on Fire (2012) respectively, employ to challenge the authority of dominant psychiatric discourses. It argues that in response to...
Apoorva, A. Aneja
· International Journal For Mu... · 0 citations