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Wehrs Donald R.

Wehrs Donald R. - Ethical Sense And Literary Significance Deep Sociality And The Cultural Agency Of Imaginative Discourse - Paperback

Wehrs Donald R. - Ethical Sense And Literary Significance Deep Sociality And The Cultural Agency Of Imaginative Discourse - Paperback

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Description: This study blends together ethical philosophy neurocognitive - evolutionary studies and literary theory to explore how imaginative discourse addresses a distinctively human deep sociality and by doing so helps shape cultural and literary history. Deep sociality arising from an improbable evolutionary history both entwines and leaves non - reconciled what is felt to be significant for us and what ethical sense seems to call us to acknowledge as significant independent of ourselves. Ethical Sense and Literary Significance connects literary and cultural history without reducing the literary to a mere expression of something else. It argues that affective differences between non - egocentric and egocentric registers of significance are integral to the bioculturally evolved deep sociality that verbal art addresses often in unsettling and socially critical ways. Much imaginative discourse in early societies as well as recent ones brings ethical sense and literary significance together in ways that reveal their intricate but non - harmonized internal entwinement. Drawing on contemporary scholarship in the humanities and sciences Donald R. Wehrs explores the implications of interdisciplinary approaches to topics central to a wide range of fields beyond literary studies including neuroscience anthropology phenomenological philosophy comparative history and social psychology.
Title: Ethical Sense And Literary Significance Deep Sociality And The Cultural Agency Of Imaginative Discourse
Author(s): Wehrs Donald R.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032450001
Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Date: 7/31/2023
Category: Psychotherapy
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