The Self-Deceiving Muse by Alan Singer
Focuses on the phenomenon of self-deception, and proposes a radical revision of our commonplace understanding of it as a token of irrationality. Argues that self-deception can illuminate the rationalistic functions of character.“Raising the scandalous proposition that the ’self-deceiver’ should be seen less as the condemnable antagonist of Reason than as the perpetrator of the active imagination that gives rise to genuine aesthetic experience, Singer tests his claim with a series of brilliant arguments grounded in literary, philosophical, and art studies extending from familiar classics—Parmigianino, Tintoretto, Flaubert, and Hegel—to such moderns as Jeff Wall, Bill Viola, Gerhard Richter, and Peter GreenawayThe Self-Deceiving Muse should add significantly to contemporary debate on the relations between reason, aesthetics, and ethics in a language thoroughly conversant with recent critical theory.”
—Josef Chytry, University of California, Berkeley, and California College of the Arts
Alan Singer is Professor of English at Temple University. His previous books include Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos (Penn State, 2003).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780271048468 |
| ISBN 10 | 0271048468 |
| Title | The Self-Deceiving Muse |
| Author | Alan Singer |
| Series | Literature And Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Year published | 2013-01-15 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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