Imagination between Fiction and Lie
Imagination between Fiction and Lie

Summary/Abstract: French philosopher Jean-Jacques Wunenburger questions the propensity of human mind to binary structures. This attraction has proved to be tragic as it generated all sorts of conflicts. The source of evil is our narrow-mindedness and refusal to apprehend the multi-dimensional nature of reality. His book, The Contradictory Rationality (1990) is a plea for a more tolerant “trialectics”. His second book quoted in my article is The Imaginaries of Politics and my research focuses on the double-faced nature of fiction. Could we speak about an amoral fiction in the arts, and an immoral one in politics? Is political fiction a lie? Should an ethical literature de-fictionalize itself as much as possible? Should literature unmask the political carnival?

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