Joshua Landy

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Joshua Landy is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor in French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University. He is also a Professor of Comparative Literature and co-director of the Literature and Philosophy Initiative [1] at Stanford.

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Education

Landy received his BA (in French and German) from Churchill College, Cambridge in 1988; his M.A. from Cambridge University in 1991; and his Ph.D. (in Comparative Literature) from Princeton University in 1997, with a thesis "The cruel gift: lucid self-delusion in French literature and German philosophy, 1851-1914" [2] [3]

Work

Landy is the author of Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust (Oxford University Press, 2004) [4] and How To Do Things with Fictions (Oxford University Press, June 2012). [5] He is the co-editor of two volumes, Thematics: New Approaches (SUNY, 1995, with Claude Bremond and Thomas Pavel) [6] and The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age (Stanford, 2009, with Michael Saler). [7] Philosophy as Fiction deals with issues of self-knowledge, self-deception, and self-fashioning in Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, while raising the question of what literary form contributes to an engagement with such questions; How to Do Things with Fictions discusses a series of texts (by Plato, Beckett, Mallarmé, and Mark) that function as training-grounds for the mental capacities. [2]

Landy has appeared on the NPR shows "Forum" and "Philosophy Talk" and has on various occasions been guest host of "Entitled Opinions."

Landy received Stanford's Walter J. Gores Award for Teaching Excellence in 1999 [8] and Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2001. [9] In 2012 he was included in Princeton Review's "Best 300 Professors". [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Stanford Magazine - Article". Stanfordalumni.org. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Joshua Landy - DIVISION OF LITERATURES, CULTURES, AND LANGUAGES". Stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 18 October 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
  3. ↑ Landy, Joshua (23 December 1997). The cruel gift: lucid self-delusion in French literature and German philosophy, 1851-1914. OCLC   39212411.
  4. ↑ Oxford University Press: Philosophy As Fiction: Joshua Landy
  5. ↑ "Oxford University Press: Aesthetics". Archived from the original on 2013-04-29. Retrieved 2017-12-23.
  6. ↑ "Thematics". Sunypress.edu. Archived from the original on 11 September 2006. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
  7. ↑ Press, Stanford University. "The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age - Edited by Joshua Landy and Michael Saler". Sup.org. Archived from the original on 7 October 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
  8. ↑ "Walter J. Gores Awards - Registrar's Office". Studentaffairs.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
  9. ↑ Professors preach 10 commandments of team teaching, Stanford Report, March 15, 2006
  10. ↑ "The Princeton Review : The Best 300 Professors" (PDF). Princetonreview.com. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
  11. ↑ Landy, Joshua (23 December 2017). How to do things with fictions. Oxford University Press. OCLC   754908680.
  12. ↑ Landy, Joshua; Saler, Michael T (23 December 2017). The re-enchantment of the world: secular magic in a rational age. Stanford University Press. OCLC   231031736.
  13. ↑ Landy, Joshua (23 December 2017). Philosophy as fiction: self, deception, and knowledge in Proust. Oxford University Press. OCLC   52838943.
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