LeMahieu, Michael
October 30, 2013
Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Fictions of Fact and Value argues that the philosophy of logical positivism, considered the antithesis of literary postmodernism, exerts a determining influence on the development of American fiction in the three decades following 1945 in what amounts to a constitutive encounter between literature and philosophy at mid-century: after the end of the modernism, as it was traditionally conceived, but prior to the rise of postmodernism, as it came to be known.