1st Edition
Ethical Sense and Literary Significance Deep Sociality and the Cultural Agency of Imaginative Discourse
By Donald R. Wehrs
Copyright 2023
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Biography
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.
