Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging Our Infatuation with Numbers

by Michael Mack

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1623566495

ISBN13:9781623566494

Release Date:February 2014

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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