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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Continuum,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 underappreciated power to make us aware of how we can change accustomed forms of perception and action"--Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 194 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441197818 1441197818 1283380412 9781283380416 9781472542465 1472542460 9781441137630 1441137637 |