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Tables of Contents for Functions and Fictions of Communication
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
11
4
Introduction
15
10
Part I: Literature as Social Fiction
Literary Fictions and Realities
25
8
Outline for a Post-Literary Theory of Fiction
33
12
Fictions of Dialogue
45
18
Part II: The Fiction of the Public as Society
The Fictional Public
63
12
Fictions and Realities of the Public Sphere
75
14
Autonomy and Contingency in the Public Sphere
89
18
Part III: Functional Fictions
Fictions of Objectivity and Cognitive Solipsism
107
18
Contingency - Entropy - Autopoiesis
125
12
Fictions of Intersubjectivity
137
16
Epilogue
153
2
Appendix Fiction and the Media
155
14
Bibliography
169
8
Index of Names and Subjects
177