Pretension as Epistemic Performance: Madness, Genius, and the Verdict of Uptake in Don Quixote
Background: Readers of Don Quixote have long divided between two verdicts: the knight is mad, or the knight is a martyr to a disenchanted world. Both readings assume that the truth of his acts lies inside the acts themselves; this paper argues that it lies in the world’s answer. Methods: The paper develops pretension...