Journal of Philosophical Investigations
“Forego the reality of all the simple things”: On Object-Oriented Reality as Metaphorical Vortex in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman
“Forego the reality of all the simple things”: On Object-Oriented Reality as Metaphorical Vortex in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman

Shahriyar Mansouri

دوره 18، شماره 48 ، شهریور 1403، ، صفحه 261-276

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.61392.3748

چکیده
  This article examines Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman in the context of Object-Oriented Ontology, and argues that the novel transports the structural paradigm of reality and being towards a never-ending limbo, highlighting a circular transference of meaning from known toward unknown horizons and vice versa. In so doing, it explores the ways in ...  بیشتر