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How Literature Changes the Way We Think

by Dr Michael Mack (reader, Durham University, Uk)

  • Paperback
  • 208 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 14 x 21.4 x 1.6 cm

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For readers interested in the power of literature

Highlights the societal impact of literature's study

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This book argues for the importance, and societal impact, of the study of the arts and humanities, and of literature in particular. The capacity of the arts and the humanities, and of literature in particular, to have a meaningful societal impact has been increasingly undervalued in recent history. Both humanists and scientists have tended to think of the arts as a means to represent the world via imagination. Mack maintains that the arts do not merely describe our world but that they also have the unique and under appreciated power to make us aware of how we can change accustomed forms of perception and action. Mack explores the works of prominent writers and thinkers, including Nietzsche, Foucault, Benjamin, Wilde, Roth, and Zizek, among others, to illustrate how literature interacts with both people and political as well as scientific issues of the real world. By virtue of its distance from the real world - its virtuality - the aesthetic has the capability to help us explore different and so far unthinkable forms of action and thereby to resist the repetition and perpetuation of harmful practices such as stereotyping, stigma, exclusion, and the exertion of violence.
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  • Title

    How Literature Changes the Way We Think

  • Author

    Dr Michael Mack (reader, Durham University, Uk)

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    December 2011

  • Weight

    237g

  • Page Count

    208

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.4 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781441119148

  • ISBN-10

    1441119140

  • Eden Code

    4639321

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