Landy: Philsophy as Fiction (1: Intro)

Premise: we have lost sight of, or perhaps never fully appreciated the philosophical significance of a text [Recherche] that is, after all, only a fiction.

Landy aims to “reconstruct arguments Proust makes based on both what the narrator says and does not say”
• operations of mind
• types of distortions it imposes on experience
• illusions it requires and knows how to sustain
• dispersions to which it is subject, both silmutaneous and sequential

appropriate response to problems of love is self-deception (6)
“love subsists on illusion” (11)

[look up Ducan Large]
what is subjective idealism (6)

“involuntary memory” (164n15)
voluntary and involuntary memory (12) see also p.13

“intuition precedes and supercedes intelligence” (10) therefore “it is rational not to be too rational”