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Author | : Hanna Meretoja |
Publisher | : Brill Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2014-10-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789042039230 |
Why we read literature and why we should read literature are age-old questions that have, in recent years, gained unprecedented scope and intensity, against the backdrop of what has been perceived as a world-wide crisis in the humanities. While scholars frequently discuss different types of value separately, in this volume values of literature are approached in the plural: we argue that the ethical, aesthetic, cognitive, affective, social, historical, and existential values of literature should be explored in connection with each other. The three parts of the book explore the relationship between ethics and aesthetics; the cognitive, affective, and social values of literature; and the construction and questioning of literary values in society. Throughout the book, we discuss the different things literature can do - ranging from affirmation of social dogmas to its capacities for self-questioning and challenging of moral certainties - through the dynamic interplay of its ethical and aesthetic, cognitive and affective aspects. Literature not only reflects and draws on the values of the historical world from which it stems; it also actively addresses, challenges, and transforms those values and explores new ways to understand value. Through these complementary processes, literature engages in its own distinctively literary forms of value inquiry.
Author | : Rafe McGregor |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2016-08-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1783489251 |
The Value of Literature provides an original and compelling argument for the historical and contemporary significance of literature to humanity.
Author | : Corina-Mihaela Beleaua |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2020-10-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1793609411 |
Locating Values in Literature: Goodness, Beauty, and Truth discusses the relevance of literature in the current educational process, stating that regardless of the level of study, literature provides students with the necessary skills to address real-world situations. Corina-Mihaela Beleaua posits that a curriculum that includes literature has a multitude of benefits for the mental and ethical development of students, defending the relevance of the three ancient values of goodness, beauty, and truth. Beleaua argues that literature is a significant tool for endorsing these transcendentals and actualizing their positive potentials as humanistic and moral values, acting as a symbolic manifestation of moral values that will impact readers outside of the scope of the literature itself. Scholars of literature, philosophy, and education will find this book particularly useful.
Author | : Hoyt Long |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2021-03-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780231193504 |
Hoyt Long offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods and an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of looking at literature through numbers. He weaves explanations of these methods and their application together with reflection on the kinds of reasoning such methodologies facilitate.
Author | : John Frow |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781742583464 |
"The essays collected here ... are centrally concerned with conflicts of value: the aesthetic value that is ascribed to texts; the economic value that accrues to intellectual property; the processes of social valuation that turn waste into worth and back again; the structures of valued knowledge that shape both the disciplines of knowledge and everyday life; and the political struggles over social and cultural difference that give rise, at their most intense, to the desolation of communities and the destruction of cultures."--Publishers website
Author | : Richard Gaskin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199657904 |
Richard Gaskin offers an original defence of literary humanism, according to which works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of production and not subject to individual readers' responses. He shows that the appreciation of literature is a cognitive activity fully on a par with scientific investigation.
Author | : Linda Leonard Lamme |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
All forms of children's literature contain moral and ethical views and values. For educators, librarians, counsellors and parents, Literature-based Moral Education: Children's Books and Activities for Teaching Values, Responsibility, and Good Judgment in the Elementary School discusses nine values important in a child's moral development, and integrates learning ideas and activities for classroom, library, or home use within reviews of children's books that deal with each of the issues covered.
Author | : Heather E. Douglas |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2009-07-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 082297357X |
The role of science in policymaking has gained unprecedented stature in the United States, raising questions about the place of science and scientific expertise in the democratic process. Some scientists have been given considerable epistemic authority in shaping policy on issues of great moral and cultural significance, and the politicizing of these issues has become highly contentious. Since World War II, most philosophers of science have purported the concept that science should be "value-free." In Science, Policy and the Value-Free Ideal, Heather E. Douglas argues that such an ideal is neither adequate nor desirable for science. She contends that the moral responsibilities of scientists require the consideration of values even at the heart of science. She lobbies for a new ideal in which values serve an essential function throughout scientific inquiry, but where the role values play is constrained at key points, thus protecting the integrity and objectivity of science. In this vein, Douglas outlines a system for the application of values to guide scientists through points of uncertainty fraught with moral valence.Following a philosophical analysis of the historical background of science advising and the value-free ideal, Douglas defines how values should-and should not-function in science. She discusses the distinctive direct and indirect roles for values in reasoning, and outlines seven senses of objectivity, showing how each can be employed to determine the reliability of scientific claims. Douglas then uses these philosophical insights to clarify the distinction between junk science and sound science to be used in policymaking. In conclusion, she calls for greater openness on the values utilized in policymaking, and more public participation in the policymaking process, by suggesting various models for effective use of both the public and experts in key risk assessments.
Author | : Martha C. Pennington |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2017-08-29 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1351809067 |
Bringing together strands of public discourse about valuing personal achievement at the expense of social values and the impacts of global capitalism, mass media, and digital culture on the lives of children, this book challenges the potential of science and business to solve the world’s problems without a complementary emphasis on social values. The selection of literary works discussed illustrates the power of literature and human arts to instill such values and foster change. The book offers a valuable foundation for the field of literacy education by providing knowledge about the importance of language and literature that educators can use in their own teaching and advocacy work.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789387800793 |
Contributed research papers on the reflection of human values in Indian culture and literature.