Paisley Livingston

Literature and Rationality

Ideas of Agency in Theory and Fiction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary study establishes connections between divergent approaches to rationality in philosophy, social science, and literary studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780521064804
• ISBN-10: 0521064805
• Artikelnr.: 23558076

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: literature and rationality
Part I. Theories and Questions: 1. Rationality: some basic issues
2. Agency, rationality, and literary knowledge
Part II. Textual Models: 3. Naturalism and the question of agency
4. Agent's rationality
5. Plans and irrationality
6. Science, reason and society Coda: 'Der Bau'
Notes
Bibliography.