Philosophy and Literature

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Our lives are filtered through and shaped by our use of language.  And language (not least as a tool of imagination) allows us to live where what is insects and fuses with what is not.  Philosophy and literature are where this intersection become conceptually organized and self-conscious.  What distinguishes them? Philosophy is organized with reference to the true; literature with reference to the real. 

The modern world is afraid of both philosophy and literature then just because they incorporate that what is not, or, rather, because they show that the will to truth and reality is inseparable from what, within a framework which allows for philosophy and literature, becomes our constitutive relation to what is "false" and to what is "fictive".

The modern answer to this situation: give up the search.

This is noted partly in response to Badiou's very different efforts to think the philosophy/literature relation in Conditions.  And partly in response to Nell's living in a world where what is real has not been separated from what is fictive and where what is true has not been separated from what is false.