Anthony J. Cascardi is Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also holds the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Chair in Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish. His many publications across the fields of literature and philosophy include The Subject of Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Consequences of Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics (2012), which was awarded the Phyllis Goodhart Gordon Prize by the Renaissance Society of America.

• Introduction; Part I. Questions of Truth and Knowledge: 1. The 'ancient quarrel'; 2. Action, imitations, conventions of make-believe; 3. The single observer standpoint and its limits; 4. Contingency, irony, edification: changing the conversation about truth; Part II. Questions of Value: 5. Values, contingencies, conflicts; 6. Reason and autonomy, imagination and feeling; 7. Forces and the will; 8. Opacity; Part III. Questions of Form: 9. Ubiquitous form; 10. Linguistic turns; 11. Form, narrative, novel; 12. Forms and fragments; Afterword: limits.

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