Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis [electronic resource] : Challenging Our Infatuation With Numbers

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서명/저자사항	Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis [electronic resource]: Challenging Our Infatuation With Numbers / Michael Mack.
개인저자	Mack, Michael, 1969-.
발행사항	New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
형태사항	1 online resource.
기타형태 저록	Print version: Mack, Michael, 1969- Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis 9781623560461
ISBN	9781623569792 (electronic bk.) 1623569796 (electronic bk.)
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Objects and Numbers -- 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; Index
요약	"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"--
요약	"Analyses the heuristic value of fiction by highlighting literature and philosophy's potential impact on economics, health care, bioethics, public policy and theology"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Literature and society. Numbers in literature. Literature --Philosophy. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
분류기호(DDC)	809.93358
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