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How Literature Changes the Way We Think (Hardcover)
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How Literature Changes the Way We Think (Hardcover)
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This book argues for the importance, and societal impact, of the
study of the arts and humanities, and of literature in particular.
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
under appreciated power to make us aware of how we can change
accustomed forms of perception and action. Mack explores the works
of prominent writers and thinkers, including Nietzsche, Foucault,
Benjamin, Wilde, Roth, and Zizek, among others, to illustrate how
literature interacts with both people and political as well as
scientific issues of the real world. By virtue of its distance from
the real world - its virtuality - the aesthetic has the capability
to help us explore different and so far unthinkable forms of action
and thereby to resist the repetition and perpetuation of harmful
practices such as stereotyping, stigma, exclusion, and the exertion
of violence.
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