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SUMMARY: Mary Mothersill Lecture – Professor Hannah Kim (University of Ariz
 ona): ‘Fiction without Mimesis: A Comparative Philosophy of Fiction’
DESCRIPTION: Title: ‘Fiction without Mimesis: A Comparative Philosophy of F
 iction’ Abstract: Is “fiction” a transhistorical and transcultural concept?
  Gregory Currie (2014) says yes. In this talk\, I argue that we ought to be
  skeptical of such a universal notion of fiction because “fiction” is a con
 cept that responds to a philosophical culture’s given metaphysical framewor
 k. Observing how classical […]
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 ><p><strong>Title: ‘Fiction without <em>Mimesis</em>: A Comparative Philoso
 phy of Fiction’</strong></p><p><strong>Abstract:<br /></strong></p><p>Is "f
 iction" a transhistorical and transcultural concept? Gregory Currie (2014) 
 says yes. In this talk\, I argue that we ought to be skeptical of such a un
 iversal notion of fiction because "fiction" is a concept that responds to a
  philosophical culture's given metaphysical framework. Observing how classi
 cal Chinese (Daoist) metaphysics affected Chinese theories (and practice) o
 f fiction shows us how considerations other than imagination\, make-believe
 \, or mimesis can be the basis of a concept of fiction. More broadly\, the 
 comparative approach to fiction shows what the existing assumptions of anal
 ytic philosophy of fiction had been\, and how it might reconceptualize its 
 aims and methods.</p><p><strong>Bio:<br /></strong>Hannah Kim is an Assista
 nt Professor at the University of Arizona. She works on aesthetics\, metaph
 ysics\, and Asian philosophy\, with particular interests in fiction\, poetr
 y\, music\, time\, Confucianism\, and Juche. She received her PhD in Philos
 ophy and PhD minor in Comparative Literature from Stanford University.<stro
 ng><br /></strong></p>
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