The Edges of Fiction by Jacques Rancière

The Edges of Fiction

Jacques Rancière with Steve Corcoran (Translator)

180 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality - this was the thesis of Aristotle's Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary cou...

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