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


Education

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


Work

Landy is the author of ''Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust'' (Oxford University Press, 2004) and ''How To Do Things with Fictions'' (Oxford University Press, June 2012). He is the co-editor of two volumes, ''Thematics: New Approaches'' (SUNY, 1995, with Claude Bremond and Thomas Pavel) and ''The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age'' (Stanford, 2009, with Michael Saler). ''Philosophy as Fiction'' deals with issues of self-knowledge, self-deception, and self-fashioning in
Marcel Proust Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( ; ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the novel (in French – translated in English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'' and more r ...
'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
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, Beckett, Mallarmé, and
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) that function as training-grounds for the mental capacities. Landy has appeared on the
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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 and Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2001. In 2012 he was included in Princeton Review's "Best 300 Professors".


Books

*''How to do Things With Fictions''. Oxford University Press, 2012. . According to WorldCat, the book is held in 322 libraries *''The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age'', ed. Joshua Landy and Michael Saler. Stanford University Press, 2009. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 274 libraries *''Philosophy As Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust''. Oxford University Press, 2004. . According to WorldCat, the book is held in 485 libraries *''Thematics: New Approaches'' ed. Claude Bremond, Joshua Landy, and Thomas G. Pavel. State University of New York Press, 1995.


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