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.
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