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The Novel Experience: Reading Fiction with Nagarjuna, Nietzsche, and William James(Signale Minima)

The Novel Experience: Reading Fiction with Nagarjuna, Nietzsche, and William James(Signale Minima)


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The Novel Experience introduces new approaches to the study of narrative fiction, for scholars, critics, teachers, and readers. At the heart of this concise book is a conception of experience that is influenced by the musings of third-century Buddhist thinker Nāgārjuna on the fictionality of truth and the emptiness of reality. Combining this insight with Nietzsche's method of intellectual genealogy and William James's transformation of emotion into "pure experience," Helmut Müller-Sievers proposes a way to talk about the experience of reading a novel that suspends the rush to judgment and ever-new "turn" in modes of interpretation. In its meditative corporeality, it is also beyond the grasp of any AI.

For Müller-Sievers, every experience is novel and every novel is an experience. He explicates this parallelism through philosophical works that privilege experience over knowledge (without denying the importance of understanding). Interspersing analyses of Nāgārjuna, Nietzsche, and James with personal essays about the lived experience of reading works like Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Heinrich von Kleist's The Marquise of O, The Novel Experience shows that reading about experiences in novels has a transformative effect on the reader's understanding of what it is to experience. Teachers and readers should attend to these changes, acknowledging their singularity while creating a community within which they can abide.



Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Experience from Aristotle to Hegel
3. The Liberation of Experience: Nāgārjuna
4. The Genealogy of Experience: Nietzsche
5. The Microphysics of Experience: William James
6. The Reading of Experience
7. The Experience of Reading
8. Reading Experiences
9. Coda



About the Author :
Helmut Müller-Sievers is Professor of German at the University of Colorado Boulder and the author of several books in German and English, including The Science of Literature. He co-translated Hans Blumenberg's St. Matthew Passion for the Signale TRANSFER series.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781501785627
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 148
  • Returnable: Y
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  • Series Title: Signale Minima
  • Weight: 326 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1501785621
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jan 2026
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
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  • Sub Title: Reading Fiction with Nagarjuna, Nietzsche, and William James
  • Width: 127 mm


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