Abstract
5 This essay grows out of Gayatri Spivak’s remark that fiction is often read as “gossip about imaginary people,” and is meant as a development of her phrase. I am grateful to Stanley Cavell for conversation about his work and to Neil Hertz, Jeff McMahon, Daniel Morgan, Bradin Cormack, Jaime Hovey, Melissa Bradshaw, Toril Moi, Hank Vogler, Larry McEnerney, and Neville Hoad for conversation about mine. Lauren Berlant gave me tremendous editorial advice and encouragement. Gabriel Lear and Richard Strier gave me detailed comments on an earlier draft. Robert Pippin has been an unimaginably generous, patient, and invigorating conversation partner. Jay Schleusener has been my constant interlocutor on these topics for four years. 1. BernardWilliams, Shame and Necessity (Berkeley, 1993), p. 13. 2. For an example of this, see Nomy Arpaly,Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry intoMoral Agency (Oxford, 2003). The Moral of the Story
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