Imagining the Real

Essays on Politics, Ideology and Literature
2003. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-333-97371-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

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. More positively, it reinterprets fiction as a specific invitation to imagine, and celebrates Shakespeare, L.H. Myers and Beckett as truly critical, because truly imaginative, exponents of ideas.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grant, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The Politics of Equilibrium Freedom for What? Must New Worlds Also be Good? Honesty, Honour and Trust The Ideology of Deconstruction Fetishizing the Unseen Thinking Degree Zero Fiction, Meaning and Utterance The Case of L. H. Myers Providencem, Authority and the Moral Life in The Tempest Index

Über Autor(innen)

ROBERT GRANT is Reader in English Literature at Glasgow University. A frequent contributor to the , he is the author of two previous books,  and , and of over 100 essays, articles and reviews. He has lectured widely in the USA, Eastern Europe and Japan, and is currently writing Michael Oakeshott's 'official' biography.