Author : Michael Mack
Release : 2011-12-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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How Literature Changes the Way We Think - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Literature Changes the Way We Think write by Michael Mack. This book was released on 2011-12-01. How Literature Changes the Way We Think available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 underappreciated 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.