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In Praise of Literature (Paperback)
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In Praise of Literature (Paperback)
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Loot Price R486
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In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the
contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts
in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the
humanities claiming scientific status). While many commentators see
literature and sociology as radically different vocations, Bauman
and Mazzeo argue that they are bound together by a common purpose
and a shared subject matter. Despite the many differences in terms
of their methods and their ways of presenting their findings,
novels and sociological texts are not at cross-purposes. Indeed, it
is precisely their differences that make them at once indispensable
to each other and mutually complementary. The writers of novels and
of sociological texts may explore their world from different
perspectives, seeking and producing different types of data , but
their products bear the unmistakable marks of their shared origin.
They feed each other and depend on each other in terms of their
agenda, their discoveries and the contents of their messages. In a
world characterized by the continuous search for new sensations and
the fetishism of consumption, they bring fundamental existential
questions back to the public agenda. Literature and sociology
reveal the truth of the human condition only when they stay in one
another's company, remaining attentive to each other's findings and
engaged in a continuous dialogue. For only together can they rise
to the challenging task of untangling and laying bare the complex
intertwining of biography and history as well as of individual and
society that totality we are constantly shaping while being shaped
by it.
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