{"product_id":"the-novel-experience-reading-fiction-with-nagarjuna-nietzsche-and-william-james-paperback-softback-9781501785634","title":"The Novel Experience; Reading Fiction with Nagarjuna, Nietzsche, and William James (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501785634","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Novel Experience\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReading Fiction with Nagarjuna, Nietzsche, and William James\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHelmut Müller-Sievers (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501785634\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 January 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e148 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Novel Experience \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eintroduces new approaches to the study of narrative fiction, for scholars, critics, teachers, and readers.\u003c\/b\u003e At the heart of this concise book is a conception of experience that is influenced by the musings of third-century Buddhist thinker Nāgārjuna on the fictionality of truth and the emptiness of reality. Combining this insight with Nietzsche's method of intellectual genealogy and William James's transformation of emotion into \"pure experience,\" Helmut Müller-Sievers proposes a way to talk about the experience of reading a novel that suspends the rush to judgment and ever-new \"turn\" in modes of interpretation. In its meditative corporeality, it is also beyond the grasp of any AI.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Müller-Sievers, every experience is novel and every novel is an experience. He explicates this parallelism through philosophical works that privilege experience over knowledge (without denying the importance of understanding). Interspersing analyses of Nāgārjuna, Nietzsche, and James with personal essays about the lived experience of reading works like Ralph Ellison's\u003ci\u003e Invisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e and Heinrich von Kleist's \u003ci\u003eThe Marquise of O, The Novel Experience\u003c\/i\u003e shows that reading about experiences in novels has a transformative effect on the reader's understanding of what it is to experience. Teachers and readers should attend to these changes, acknowledging their singularity while creating a community within which they can abide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2. Experience from Aristotle to Hegel\u003cbr\u003e3. The Liberation of Experience: Nāgārjuna\u003cbr\u003e4. The Genealogy of Experience: Nietzsche\u003cbr\u003e5. The Microphysics of Experience: William James\u003cbr\u003e6. The Reading of Experience\u003cbr\u003e7. The Experience of Reading\u003cbr\u003e8. Reading Experiences\u003cbr\u003e9. Coda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610567995672,"sku":"9781501785634","price":13.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-novel-experience-reading-fiction-with-nagarjuna-nietzsche-and-william-james-paperback-softback-9781501785634","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}