The apathetic fallacy

Miller, Gavin (2010) The apathetic fallacy. Philosophy and Literature, 34 (1). pp. 48-64. ISSN 0190-0013

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Abstract

The "apathetic fallacy" dominates literary criticism: to make critical inquiry "epistemologically objective" (rational and disinterested) literary critics have mistakenly tried to restrict their study to that which is "ontologically objective" (not a matter of subjective reality). Absurdity results, particularly when, because of a combination of New Critical orthodoxy, and cherry-picked psychoanalytic concepts, intentional meaning is denigrated as "merely" subjective. Fredric Jameson's account of postmodernism is a case-study in such absurdity; further folly can be avoided only by a disciplinary audit that purges literary inquiry of the "apathetic fallacy."

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	No
Date Deposited:	03 Aug 2010 13:06
Publisher:	The Johns Hopkins University Press
Additional Information:	Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Philosophy and Literature, published by and copyright The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/108929
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.0.0080
ISSN	0190-0013

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