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000710471 05000 $$aPN51$$b.M17 2014
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000710471 1001_ $$aMack, Michael,$$d1969-2020.
000710471 24510 $$aPhilosophy and literature in times of crisis :$$bchallenging our infatuation with numbers /$$cMichael Mack.
000710471 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bBloomsbury,$$c2014.
000710471 300__ $$aviii, 234 pages ;$$c22 cm
000710471 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent
000710471 337__ $$aunmediated$$2rdamedia
000710471 338__ $$avolume$$2rdacarrier
000710471 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000710471 5050_ $$aIntroduction: Objects and number: Our Current Infatuation -- 1. What is it about Numbers? -- 2. Playing the Numbers: Ethics and Economics -- 3. Certainty and the Predictability of Numbers: The Question of Literary Ethics -- 4. A Disenchantment with Numbers: Philosophy and Literature -- 5. Medicine and the Limits of Numbers -- 6. Towards a Numerical Ambiguity -- 7. Conclusion: From Numbers to the Individual: A New Ethics of Subjectivity.
000710471 520__ $$a"Analyses the heuristic value of fiction by highlighting literature and philosophy's potential impact on economics, health care, bioethics, public policy and theology"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000710471 520__ $$a"Highlighting literature and philosophy's potential impact on economics, health care, bioethics, public policy and theology, this book analyses the heuristic value of fiction. It alerts us to how we risk succumbing to the deceptions of fiction in our everyday lives, because fictional representations constantly feign to be of the real and claim a reality of their own. Philosophy and literature disclose how the substantive sphere of social, economic and medical practice is sometimes driven and shaped by the affect-ridden and subjective. Analysing a wide range of literature--from Augustine, Shakespeare, Spinoza and Deleuze to Kafka, Sylvia Plath, Philip Roth, W. G. Sebald and Jonathan Littell--Michael Mack rethinks ethical attitudes towards the long or eternal life. In so doing he shows how philosophy and literature turn representation against itself to expose the hollowness of theologically grand concepts that govern our secular approach towards ethics, economics and medicine. Philosophy and literature help us resist our current infatuation with numbers and the numerical and contribute towards a future politics that is at once singular and diverse"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000710471 650_0 $$aLiterature and society.
000710471 650_0 $$aNumbers in literature.
000710471 650_0 $$aLiterature$$xPhilosophy.
000710471 85200 $$bgen$$hPN51$$i.M17$$i2014
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