Ethical Sense and Literary Significance 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.
Ethical Sense and Literary Significance 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.
Donald R. Wehrs is Hargis Professor of English Literature at Auburn University, USA. He is the editor or co-editor of five collections, most recently Cultural Memory: From the Sciences to the Humanities (Routledge, 2023), and author of three books on African fiction and over 40 scholarly publications.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Literary Signification and Biocultural Sociality Part I: A Transcultural Historical Phenomenon and its Implications for Literary Theory Chapter One: Platonic Poetics and Axial Cultural Revolutions Chapter Two: Literary Theory and the Task of Accounting for Axial Hermeneutics Part II: Neurocognitive Underpinnings and Evolutionary Prehistories of Significance Discernment and Ethical Sense Chapter Three: Literary Significance's Prehistory: Attentiveness, Affectivity, and Sociality Chapter Four: Literary Significance's Prehistory: Trust, Subjectivity, and Symbolic Culture Chapter Five: Affective Dissonance, Moral Sociality, and the Prehistory of Ethical Sense Conclusion: Life Sciences, Cultural Studies, and Literary History Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: Literary Signification and Biocultural Sociality Part I: A Transcultural Historical Phenomenon and its Implications for Literary Theory Chapter One: Platonic Poetics and Axial Cultural Revolutions Chapter Two: Literary Theory and the Task of Accounting for Axial Hermeneutics Part II: Neurocognitive Underpinnings and Evolutionary Prehistories of Significance Discernment and Ethical Sense Chapter Three: Literary Significance's Prehistory: Attentiveness, Affectivity, and Sociality Chapter Four: Literary Significance's Prehistory: Trust, Subjectivity, and Symbolic Culture Chapter Five: Affective Dissonance, Moral Sociality, and the Prehistory of Ethical Sense Conclusion: Life Sciences, Cultural Studies, and Literary History Bibliography Index
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