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Narrative and truth : an ethical and dynamic paradigm for the humanities /

In this book, Emslie establishes that narrative explanations are to be preferred over non-narrative in the humanities. They are more truthful in two senses. They both correspond more closely to reality and allow inference as to normative values. This is particularly the case when aesthetics is added...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Emslie, Barry
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Humanities > Moral and ethical aspects.
Narration (Rhetoric) > Moral and ethical aspects.
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
Literature > Philosophy.
REFERENCE / Questions & Answers.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • An overview
  • Marxist humanism: (Hegel, Marx, Lukács, Eagleton, Habermas)
  • Women and writing: (women theorists, women novelists, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë)
  • Freud: (science as narrative, a perverse and singular teleology, certainty masquerading as doubt)
  • Philosophy and fatherland: (German transcendentalism, aesthetics, and nationalism)
  • Realism: (Brecht, sport, the Bible, Lenin, conspiracy theories)
  • Death.