"Postmodernists have elevated literature to a kind of supreme genre, of which philosophy and science are merely species. Each of the three disciplines would have as little to do with truth as the others; each would be concerned only with inventing good stories, which we sometimes honor with the title of "truths" only to mean that they help us solve the problems we have with the world and with other men.
One of the most remarkable consequences of this conception has been to divert attention from the crucial question: why do we need literature, in addition to science and philosophy, to help us solve some of our problems? And what exactly is it that makes literature special, seen as a pathway, which could not be replaced by any other, to knowledge and truth?"
