Philosophy and literature in times of crisis : : challenging our infatuation with numbers / / Michael Mack.
"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 repre...
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Mack, Michael, 1969- Philosophy and literature in times of crisis : challenging our infatuation with numbers / Michael Mack. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. 1 online resource (249 pages) text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Machine generated contents note: -- Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Objects and number: Our Current Infatuation Chapter 1. What is it about Numbers? Chapter 2. Playing the Numbers: Ethics and Economics.Chapter 3. Certainty and the Predictability of Numbers: the question of Literary Ethics.Chapter 4. A Disenchantment with Numbers: Philosophy and Literature.Chapter 5. Medicine and the Limits of Numbers. Chapter 6. Towards a Numerical Ambiguity.Conclusion: From Numbers to the Individual: A New Ethics of Subjectivity. Bibliography Index. "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"-- Provided by publisher. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. Literature and society. Numbers in literature. Literature Philosophy. Electronic books. Print version: Mack, Michae. Philosophy and literature in times of crisis : challenging our infatuation with numbers. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014 9781623560461 (DLC)10834518 ProQuest (Firm) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/oeawat/detail.action?docID=1609899 Click to View |
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