How literature changes the way we think /
"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 maintai...
| Основен автор: | Mack, Michael, 1969- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Continuum,
2011.
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How literature changes the way we think. |
Съдържание:
- Think again: an introduction.
- 1. Death again: reimagining the end.
- The Humanities, the demography of aging, and the philosophy of birth
- The test and the copy of the Mad Men
- 2. Revisiting torture and torment. Spinoza's Post-Human Critique of Mimesis
- Nietzsche, Post-Humanism and back to the Biopolitical Economics of Mad Men
- 3. Revisiting clones: change and the politics of life. Cloning and art as mere copy of Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
- The market verifies the truth of life: Foucault's Biopolitics of Free Market Liberalism
- The Nazi Genocide, Hannah Arendt and the Philosophy of Birth
- 4. Rethinking suffering: self and substance. Literature's mediation between substantive and subjective suffering, or the Critique of Zizek: Can We Do Justice to Suffering Without a Notion of Substance?
- Aging, the changing demography, and literature's transformation of consciousness
- Literature's Critique of Fiction: Ishiguro's Remains of the Day
- 5. The birth of literature. From the market economy of the Romantic genius to art's disruption of the status quo
- A new cosmos of poetry
- Walter Benjamin's alternative to Martin Heidegger's and Paul de Man's approach to literature and its implications for cultural studies (Slavoj Zizek)
- Excursus: Agamben, Doctorow, and the Biopolitics of Representation
- Zizek, de Man, and Spinoza's Cartesian break with Descartes
- Holderlin, Benjamin, and the poetry of new beginnings
- Celan, the void and the aftermath of the Nazi Genocide
- 6. The birth of politics. Benjamin's Poetics of Kantian Transcendental Philosophy
- Art's interconnected universe
- Heidegger or poetry as a function of history/politics and art as basis for politics in Benjamin
- 7. Rethinking birth and aging: a conclusion. The stereotype of the Jew as representation of aging and decay
- Philip Roth or revisiting Plato and Aristotle on Mimesis.