Donald R. Wehrs

Ethical Sense and Literary Significance (eBook, ePUB)

Deep Sociality and the Cultural Agency of Imaginative Discourse

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000901382
• Artikelnr.: 68109758

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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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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