Joshua Landy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3594015 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joshua Landy |
| PRENOMES | Joshua |
| SOBRENOME | Landy |
| ASSINATURA | LANDY J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stanford University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Gender Trouble (and Cognitive Science) in Baudelaire
Nature is a temple. Death is a captain. Hair is an ocean. Woods are like cathedrals. Beauty bestrides her throne like a sphinx. An indigent muse sings like a cynical choirboy. It’s a wellknown fact that Baudelaire’s poetry is full of metaphor, simile, and analogy; what’s less obvious is the fact that many of these comparisons cross grammatical gender, bringing together la nature and un temple, un amour and la matière, la Beauté and un sphinx, le …
Zinger, clunker, clanger, flunker
According to a now-standard theory, “Juliet is the sun” is supposed to be a “pregnant” metaphor, ready at any moment to beget a sprawling heap of adorable semantic puppies. Its two parts—“Juliet” and “the sun”—ostensibly meet at a virtually endless number of points, and it’s allegedly illuminating, enjoyable, or at least interesting to sit there all day spelling them out. But what if none of that is true? What if, instead, a successful creative c…
In Praise of Depth
In recent years, some prominent scholars have been making a surprising claim: examining literary texts for hidden depths is overblown, misguided, or indeed downright dangerous. Such examination, they've warned us, may lead to the loss of world Heidegger warned of (Gumbrecht), to the world-denying metaphysics Nietzsche warned of (Nehamas), or to the suspicious form of hermeneutics Ricoeur warned of (Best, Marcus, Moi). This paper seeks to suggest …
Conditional Goods and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Conditional Goods and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies:How Literature (as a Whole) Could Matter Again Joshua Landy (bio) We literary scholars have a notorious flair for the dramatic, and I suspect that for many, the first impulse when confronted with the question "does literature matter?" is to say something like "of course it matters, and anyone who doesn't see that is a heartless brute," or—a more probable response these days—"of course it doesn't ma…
How to Do Things with Fictions
"Why does Mark's Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why are Beckett's novels so inscrutable? And why don't stage magicians even pretend to summon spirits anymore? In a series of captivating chapters on Mark, Plato, Beckett, Mallarmé, and Chaucer, Joshua Landy not only answers these questions but explains why they are worth asking in the first place. Witty and approachable, How to Do Things with Fictions challen…
Formative Fictions
While it is often assumed that fictions must be informative or morally improving in order to be of any real benefit to us, certain texts defy this assumption by functioning as training grounds for the capacities: in engaging with them, we stand to become not more knowledgeable or more virtuous but more skilled, whether at rational thinking, at maintaining necessary illusions, at achieving tranquility of mind, or even at religious faith. Instead o…
Still Life in a Narrative Age
The re-enchantment of the world
"The Re-Enchantment of the World is an interdisciplinary volume that challenges the long-prevailing view of modernity as "disenchanted." There is of course something to the widespread idea, so memorably put into words by Max Weber, that modernity is characterized by the "progressive disenchantment of the world." Yet what is less often recognized is the fact that a powerful counter-tendency runs alongside this one, an overwhelming urge to fill the…
A Beatrice for Proust
How similar is Proust's Recherche to Dante's Commedia? Not very, as it turns out. In the first place, Proust's protagonist does not require an experience of ideal love as a precondition for conversion: Mlle de Saint-Loup is no Beatrice. And in the second, what he produces is not an allegorized rendition of his creator's journey to authorship. Dante the pilgrim may well become Dante the writer, but Marcel does not become Proust, nor does he go on …
The Paradox of Perfection
Book Review| March 01 2005 The Paradox of Perfection Thomas G. Pavel, La pensée du roman . Paris: Gallimard, 2003. 412 pp. Joshua Landy Joshua Landy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 161–168. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-26-1-161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Joshua Landy; The Paradox of Perfection. Poetics Today 1 March 2…
Philosophy As Fiction
"Philosophy as Fiction seeks to account for the peculiar power of philosophical literature by taking as its case study the paradigmatic generic hybrid of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. At once philosophical - in that it presents claims, and even deploys arguments concerning such traditionally philosophical issues as knowledge, self-deception, selfhood, love, friendship, and art - and literary - in that its situatio…
Proust, His Narrator, and the Importance of the Distinction
Although it is, in principle, almost universally accepted today that authors and narrators must be rigorously demarcated, somehow scholars of Marcel Proust seem-whether wittingly or unwittingly-to make an exception for In Search of Lost me. Because it is written in the first person and because it incorporates scenes borrowed from Proust's own life, the fictional narrative is routinely read as his thinly veiled autobiography, if not as evidence fo…
Philosophy as Self-Fashioning
To turn philosophy to the service of life—to become the "poet of one's life"—is the animating thought behind Alexander Nehamas's recent book, The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault. The book's central aim is to argue that philosophy can be an activity, a way of life, as distinct from a body of scholarly doctrine. While it has become standard to insist that "philosophy is a theoretical discipline" [AL 1], producing claims a…
Les Moi en Moi
In his monumental novel, Marcel Proust sets himself an equally monumental task: to extract unity from a Self which is not just multiple but, so to speak, doubly multiple. 1 Bringing together two strands of philosophical-psychological inquiry, Proust suggests that each individual is fractured both synchronically, into a set of faculties or drives, and diachronically, into a series of distinct organizations and orientations of those faculties or dr…
Proust, His Narrator, and the Importance of the Distinction
Although it is, in principle, almost universally accepted today that authors and narrators must be rigorously demarcated, somehow scholars of Marcel Proust seem-whether wittingly or unwittingly-to make an exception for In Search of Lost me. Because it is written in the first person and because it incorporates scenes borrowed from Proust's own life, the fictional narrative is routinely read as his thinly veiled autobiography, if not as evidence fo…
Formative Fictions
While it is often assumed that fictions must be informative or morally improving in order to be of any real benefit to us, certain texts defy this assumption by functioning as training grounds for the capacities: in engaging with them, we stand to become not more knowledgeable or more virtuous but more skilled, whether at rational thinking, at maintaining necessary illusions, at achieving tranquility of mind, or even at religious faith. Instead o…
Conditional Goods and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Conditional Goods and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies:How Literature (as a Whole) Could Matter Again Joshua Landy (bio) We literary scholars have a notorious flair for the dramatic, and I suspect that for many, the first impulse when confronted with the question "does literature matter?" is to say something like "of course it matters, and anyone who doesn't see that is a heartless brute," or—a more probable response these days—"of course it doesn't ma…
Still Life in a Narrative Age
Les Moi en Moi
In his monumental novel, Marcel Proust sets himself an equally monumental task: to extract unity from a Self which is not just multiple but, so to speak, doubly multiple. 1 Bringing together two strands of philosophical-psychological inquiry, Proust suggests that each individual is fractured both synchronically, into a set of faculties or drives, and diachronically, into a series of distinct organizations and orientations of those faculties or dr…
In Praise of Depth
In recent years, some prominent scholars have been making a surprising claim: examining literary texts for hidden depths is overblown, misguided, or indeed downright dangerous. Such examination, they've warned us, may lead to the loss of world Heidegger warned of (Gumbrecht), to the world-denying metaphysics Nietzsche warned of (Nehamas), or to the suspicious form of hermeneutics Ricoeur warned of (Best, Marcus, Moi). This paper seeks to suggest …
The Paradox of Perfection
Book Review| March 01 2005 The Paradox of Perfection Thomas G. Pavel, La pensée du roman . Paris: Gallimard, 2003. 412 pp. Joshua Landy Joshua Landy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 161–168. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-26-1-161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Joshua Landy; The Paradox of Perfection. Poetics Today 1 March 2…
Philosophy as Self-Fashioning
To turn philosophy to the service of life—to become the "poet of one's life"—is the animating thought behind Alexander Nehamas's recent book, The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault. The book's central aim is to argue that philosophy can be an activity, a way of life, as distinct from a body of scholarly doctrine. While it has become standard to insist that "philosophy is a theoretical discipline" [AL 1], producing claims a…
Les Moi en Moi
In his monumental novel, Marcel Proust sets himself an equally monumental task: to extract unity from a Self which is not just multiple but, so to speak, doubly multiple. 1 Bringing together two strands of philosophical-psychological inquiry, Proust suggests that each individual is fractured both synchronically, into a set of faculties or drives, and diachronically, into a series of distinct organizations and orientations of those faculties or dr…
Philosophy As Fiction
"Philosophy as Fiction seeks to account for the peculiar power of philosophical literature by taking as its case study the paradigmatic generic hybrid of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. At once philosophical - in that it presents claims, and even deploys arguments concerning such traditionally philosophical issues as knowledge, self-deception, selfhood, love, friendship, and art - and literary - in that its situatio…
Proust, His Narrator, and the Importance of the Distinction
Although it is, in principle, almost universally accepted today that authors and narrators must be rigorously demarcated, somehow scholars of Marcel Proust seem-whether wittingly or unwittingly-to make an exception for In Search of Lost me. Because it is written in the first person and because it incorporates scenes borrowed from Proust's own life, the fictional narrative is routinely read as his thinly veiled autobiography, if not as evidence fo…
The Paradox of Perfection
Book Review| March 01 2005 The Paradox of Perfection Thomas G. Pavel, La pensée du roman . Paris: Gallimard, 2003. 412 pp. Joshua Landy Joshua Landy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 161–168. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-26-1-161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Joshua Landy; The Paradox of Perfection. Poetics Today 1 March 2…
A Beatrice for Proust
How similar is Proust's Recherche to Dante's Commedia? Not very, as it turns out. In the first place, Proust's protagonist does not require an experience of ideal love as a precondition for conversion: Mlle de Saint-Loup is no Beatrice. And in the second, what he produces is not an allegorized rendition of his creator's journey to authorship. Dante the pilgrim may well become Dante the writer, but Marcel does not become Proust, nor does he go on …
The re-enchantment of the world
"The Re-Enchantment of the World is an interdisciplinary volume that challenges the long-prevailing view of modernity as "disenchanted." There is of course something to the widespread idea, so memorably put into words by Max Weber, that modernity is characterized by the "progressive disenchantment of the world." Yet what is less often recognized is the fact that a powerful counter-tendency runs alongside this one, an overwhelming urge to fill the…
Still Life in a Narrative Age
How to Do Things with Fictions
"Why does Mark's Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why are Beckett's novels so inscrutable? And why don't stage magicians even pretend to summon spirits anymore? In a series of captivating chapters on Mark, Plato, Beckett, Mallarmé, and Chaucer, Joshua Landy not only answers these questions but explains why they are worth asking in the first place. Witty and approachable, How to Do Things with Fictions challen…
Formative Fictions
While it is often assumed that fictions must be informative or morally improving in order to be of any real benefit to us, certain texts defy this assumption by functioning as training grounds for the capacities: in engaging with them, we stand to become not more knowledgeable or more virtuous but more skilled, whether at rational thinking, at maintaining necessary illusions, at achieving tranquility of mind, or even at religious faith. Instead o…
Conditional Goods and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Conditional Goods and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies:How Literature (as a Whole) Could Matter Again Joshua Landy (bio) We literary scholars have a notorious flair for the dramatic, and I suspect that for many, the first impulse when confronted with the question "does literature matter?" is to say something like "of course it matters, and anyone who doesn't see that is a heartless brute," or—a more probable response these days—"of course it doesn't ma…
In Praise of Depth
In recent years, some prominent scholars have been making a surprising claim: examining literary texts for hidden depths is overblown, misguided, or indeed downright dangerous. Such examination, they've warned us, may lead to the loss of world Heidegger warned of (Gumbrecht), to the world-denying metaphysics Nietzsche warned of (Nehamas), or to the suspicious form of hermeneutics Ricoeur warned of (Best, Marcus, Moi). This paper seeks to suggest …
Zinger, clunker, clanger, flunker
According to a now-standard theory, “Juliet is the sun” is supposed to be a “pregnant” metaphor, ready at any moment to beget a sprawling heap of adorable semantic puppies. Its two parts—“Juliet” and “the sun”—ostensibly meet at a virtually endless number of points, and it’s allegedly illuminating, enjoyable, or at least interesting to sit there all day spelling them out. But what if none of that is true? What if, instead, a successful creative c…
Gender Trouble (and Cognitive Science) in Baudelaire
Nature is a temple. Death is a captain. Hair is an ocean. Woods are like cathedrals. Beauty bestrides her throne like a sphinx. An indigent muse sings like a cynical choirboy. It’s a wellknown fact that Baudelaire’s poetry is full of metaphor, simile, and analogy; what’s less obvious is the fact that many of these comparisons cross grammatical gender, bringing together la nature and un temple, un amour and la matière, la Beauté and un sphinx, le …
Philosophy (12 obras) · Epistemology (11 obras) · Aesthetics (9 obras) · Art (9 obras) · Literature (8 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (5 obras) · Narrative Theory and Analysis (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Law (4 obras)