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- Title
Understanding as Transformative Activity: Radicalizing Neo-Cognitivism for Literary Narratives.
- Authors
Vendrell Ferran, Ingrid
- Abstract
Mikkonen's new book and his emphasis on understanding should be regarded as an important contribution to the contemporary debate on the cognitive value of literary narratives. As I shall argue, his notion of understanding can also help explain how literature is existentially valuable. In so doing, his account can support a radicalized contemporary neo-cognitivism according to which literature can affect us existentially and lead to a personal transformation.
- Subjects
COGNITIVE psychology; MIKKONEN, Jukka; NARRATIVES; PHENOMENOLOGY; AESTHETICS
- Publication
Philosophia, 2024, Vol 52, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
0048-3893
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11406-023-00689-y