Fear, Truth, Writing

Alison Leigh Brown is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northern Arizona State University. She is currently at work on a book about deception.

"The book will both inspire further investigation into questions of identity, gender, 'anarchy', and new ways of formulating these questions, especially through the incorporation of narrative. Indeed, this text brings into contact, in a way that none other that I have read has, the idea of 'fictional' narrative as theoretical method with more 'straightforward' philosophical analyses." — Bill Martin, DePaul University of Chicago"The questions that this book raises about the relations between 'popular' culture and 'high' culture, theory and practice, philosophy and fiction, are important to contemporary social theory. Brown's analysis is original and creative. In her loose weave, she strings together philosophy, cultural analysis, and fiction to create a colorful pastiche of contemporary thought." — Kelly Oliver, University of Texas at Austin

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Truth, Fear, and Writing2. When Writing is Not3. Thought Speaking Then Writing Itself4. Writing Ourselves That Are NotChapter One. Truth 1. Truth as Vivid Imagination2. Aletheia: Zoon Anthropon: Life Becomes Us3. Phenomenological Imaging4. Truth Becomes Us: Literally5. Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie6. All is not LostChapter Two. Fear 1. Uncovering Fear Involves Using Up Fear2. But Fear Cannot Be Used Up3. Overcoming Fear in Moments4. Impediment to Political Action: FearChapter Three. Writing 1. Writing through to Fiction2. Anarchy in the UK/USA3. Alternate Sexualities; Living4. We Need Language(s) for Analysis5. Academic Tension: Re-WritingChapter Four. From Paper Village to Virtual Community 1. Kierkegaard's Paper Village2. Cixous Writing Herself to Herself for Herself3. Electronic CommunitiesNotes Bibliography