That is not it at all

That is not it at all

“No artist will be found greater as an artist than he was as a thinker”, wrote David Masson in British Novelists and Their Styles (1859); thus, “the desirable arrangement might be either that our novelists were philosophers, or that philosophers were our novelists”. More recently, Martha Nussbaum has argued that literary form is always implicitly philosophical, while some contemporary novels – such as Rebecca Goldstein’s 36 Arguments for the Exi…