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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mack, Michael, 1969-2020
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Continuum, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 -- Hölderlin, 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. 
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