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“I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.”

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Nelson Goodman

Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher known for his contributions to analytic philosophy and phenomenology. His research involved epistemology, aesthetics, and logic, particularly theories of language, meaning, and knowledge. Goodman's work has had a profound impact on subsequent philosophy and cognitive science. more

“The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.”

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Book:How to Read Literature

Source: How to Read Literature

“Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.”

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Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.”

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Book:Ideology: An Introduction

Source: Ideology: An Introduction

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