This collection of twelve essays aims to demonstrate that while example has a rich genealogy in the rhetorical tradition, it also involves issues that are central to current theories of meaning and ethics in literature and philosophy. Whatever is designated as example functions …
La 4e de couverture indique : " ... Alessandro Ferrara tenta una strategia completamente diversa per mostrare come sia possibile trascendere la particolarità dei contesti senza violare le nostre intuizioni pluralistiche: una strategia centrata sull'universalismo esemplare del gi…
"Labyrinths of Exemplarity presents the first comprehensive, in-depth study of the problem of exemplarity - or how we move between the general and the particular in order to try to understand our world. The author's focus ranges from the most basic and fundamental issues of what…
"Labyrinths of Exemplarity presents the first comprehensive, in-depth study of the problem of exemplarity - or how we move between the general and the particular in order to try to understand our world. The author's focus ranges from the most basic and fundamental issues of what…
"Labyrinths of Exemplarity presents the first comprehensive, in-depth study of the problem of exemplarity - or how we move between the general and the particular in order to try to understand our world. The author's focus ranges from the most basic and fundamental issues of what…
Discussion of the thesis that any goal which the protagonist of a novel seeks has been suggested by a mediator and that this "triangular desire" is the form of all great novels.