Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging our Infatuation with Numbers 9781623566494

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Автор: Michael Mack
Название: Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging our Infatuation with Numbers
ISBN: 9781623566494
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Литературоведение: Общие вопросы

ISBN-10: 1623566495
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 248
Вес: 0.34 кг.
Дата издания: 10.04.2014
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Размер: 143 x 218 x 16
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: from c 1900 -, LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Основная тема: Literary studies: from c 1900 -,LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Подзаголовок: Challenging our infatuation with numbers
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Highlighting literature and philosophys potential impact on economics, health care, bioethics, public policy and theology, this book analyses the heuristic value of fiction. It alerts us to how we risk succumbing to the deceptions of fiction in our everyday lives, because fictional representations constantly feign to be of the real and claim a reality of their own. Philosophy and literature disclose how the substantive sphere of social, economic and medical practice is sometimes driven and shaped by the affect-ridden and subjective. Analysing a wide range of literature—from Augustine, Shakespeare, Spinoza and Deleuze to Kafka, Sylvia Plath, Philip Roth, W. G. Sebald and Jonathan Littell—Michael Mack rethinks ethical attitudes towards the long or eternal life. In so doing he shows how philosophy and literature turn representation against itself to expose the hollowness of theologically grand concepts that govern our secular approach towards ethics, economics and medicine. Philosophy and literature help us resist our current infatuation with numbers and the numerical and contribute towards a future politics that is at once singular and diverse.
Дополнительное описание: Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Objects and number: Our Current Infatuation Chapter 1. What is it about Numbers? Chapter 2. Playing the Numbers: Ethics and Economics. Chapter 3. Certainty and the Predictability of Numbers: the question of

Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging our Infatuation with Numbers, Michael Mack