Imagining The Real

Essays on Politics, Ideology and Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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Throughout its ten related essays, "Imagining the Real" contrasts our abstract imaginings about the human world with the imaginative insights provided by art and experience. It questions, variously, the relevance of game theory and sociobiology to politics, the supposed intrinsic values of liberal freedom, cultural change, and democratic action and the claims of marxism, deconstruction and "theory" generally to be non-ideological. Positively, it reinterprets fiction as a specific invitation to imagine,

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2003-08-01
Mått140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt445 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
Upplaga2003
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333973714

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'The cumulative effect of the new collection [of essays, is]...one of outstanding brilliance, insight, trenchancy and faithful answerability to the argument in hand.' - David Wiggins, New College, Oxford 'Imagining the Real...covers a wide range of topics (from honesty to Derrida, from The Tempest to game theory), but with a consistent purpose: to explore the ways in which culture is the bearer and guarantor of human values, and to expose the errors of those who think otherwise.' - Noel Malcolm, The New Criterion