Literature and personal values

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Label

Literature and personal values

Statement of responsibility

Patrick Grant

Creator

• Grant, Patrick, 1941-

Subject

• Literature -- Aesthetics
• Literature -- Philosophy
• Philosophy, Modern
• Social values in literature
• Values in literature

Language

eng

Summary

• Throughout, the theoretical positions are developed by means of exegesis of appropriate literary texts
• Literature and criticism make us pressingly aware of how language operates through an elusive dialectic of presence and absence, making a world available to us and simultaneously separating us from it. One way to approach the idea of the person--an idea that literature and criticism have done much to shape and confirm--is by interpreting it within such a dialectic, as an evolving and evaluative term. A series of chapters brings to bear on these issues the vocabularies of hermeneutics and phenomenology, scientific verification, philosophy of imagination, Judaeo-Christian religion, and Marxism. A conclusion attempts a synthesis describing some vital relations between literature and culture, focussed on the category of the person
• Throughout, the theoretical positions are developed by means of exegesis of appropriate literary texts

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography