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Highlights
- Throughout its ten related essays, Imagining the Real contrasts our abstract imaginings about the human world with the imaginative insights provided by art and experience.
- About the Author: ROBERT GRANT is Reader in English Literature at Glasgow University.
- 248 Pages
- Social Science, Anthropology
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Book Synopsis
Throughout its ten related essays, Imagining the Real contrasts our abstract imaginings about the human world with the imaginative insights provided by art and experience. It questions, variously, the relevance of game theory and sociobiology to politics; the supposed intrinsic values of liberal freedom, cultural change, and democratic action; and the claims of Marxism, deconstruction and 'Theory' generally to be non-ideological. More positively, it reinterprets fiction as a specific invitation to imagine, and celebrates Shakespeare, L.H. Myers and Beckett as truly critical, because truly imaginative, exponents of ideas.Review Quotes
'The cumulative effect of the new collection [of essays, is]...one of outstanding brilliance, insight, trenchancy and faithful answerability to the argument in hand.' - David Wiggins, New College, Oxford
'Imagining the Real...covers a wide range of topics (from honesty to Derrida, from The Tempest to game theory), but with a consistent purpose: to explore the ways in which culture is the bearer and guarantor of human values, and to expose the errors of those who think otherwise.' - Noel Malcolm, The New Criterion
About the Author
ROBERT GRANT is Reader in English Literature at Glasgow University. A frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, he is the author of two previous books, Oakeshott and The Politics of Sex and Other Essays, and of over 100 essays, articles and reviews. He has lectured widely in the USA, Eastern Europe and Japan, and is currently writing Michael Oakeshott's 'official' biography.Dimensions (Overall): 9.06 Inches (H) x 5.46 Inches (W) x .74 Inches (D)
Weight: .98 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 248
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Anthropology
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Theme: Cultural & Social
Format: Hardcover
Author: R Grant
Language: English
Street Date: August 1, 2003
TCIN: 1005546544
UPC: 9780333973714
Item Number (DPCI): 247-11-2378
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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