What Is Fiction For? : Literary Humanism Restored 9780253014122, 9780253014061

How can literature, which consists of nothing more than the description of imaginary events and situations, offer any in

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What Is Fiction For? : Literary Humanism Restored
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“Harrison’s marriage of philosophy and literary criticism does genuine and novel work.” —Journal of Aesthetics and Art C

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A new translation of two seminal works of existentialism

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What is the state of philosophy today, and what might it be tomorrow? With What Philosophy Is For, Michael Hampe answers

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Does charitable giving still matter but need to change? Philanthropy, the use of private assets for public good, has bee

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How does armed conflict shape global politics? When states wage war on their neighbours while denying its existence, wha

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Suneeta Deshpande s bitter-sweet reminiscenes are of a life fully lived, from a student revolutionary, stage performer,

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A fresh translation of two seminal works of existentialism "To understand Jean-Paul Sartre is to understand somethi

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