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Imperfection and Defeat: The Role of Aesthetic Imagination in Human Society
Virgil Nemoianu
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Description for Imperfection and Defeat: The Role of Aesthetic Imagination in Human Society
hardcover. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Literature is defined in a challenging way as the "science" of imperfection and defeat, or else as a type of discourse that deals with defeat, loss, uncertainty in social life, by contrast with virtually all disciplines (hard sciences or social sciences) that affirm certainties and wish to convince us of truths. If in real history most constructive attempts end up in failure, it follows that we ought to have also a field of research that examines this diversity of failures and disappointments, as well as the alternative options to historical evolution and progress. Thus literature serves an indispensable role: that ... Read more
Literature is defined in a challenging way as the "science" of imperfection and defeat, or else as a type of discourse that deals with defeat, loss, uncertainty in social life, by contrast with virtually all disciplines (hard sciences or social sciences) that affirm certainties and wish to convince us of truths. If in real history most constructive attempts end up in failure, it follows that we ought to have also a field of research that examines this diversity of failures and disappointments, as well as the alternative options to historical evolution and progress. Thus literature serves an indispensable role: that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Central European University Press Hungary
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
154
Place of Publication
Budapest, Hungary
ISBN
9789637326578
SKU
V9789637326578
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About Virgil Nemoianu
Virgil Nemoianu is William J. Byron Distinguished Professor of Literature and Ordinary Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. He is the author and editor of over 700 articles, reviews, and columns on three continents, and over 15 books including The Taming of Romanticism (Harvard UP, 1985), The Theory of the Secondary (Johns Hopkins UP, ... Read more
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