Literature and rationality : ideas of agency in theory and fiction

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Literature and rationality : ideas of agency in theory and fiction

Paisley Livingston

Cambridge University Press, 1991

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-250) and index

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This interdisciplinary study establishes connections between divergent approaches to rationality in philosophy, social science, and literary studies. Livingston provides a broad survey of the basic assumptions and questions associated with concepts of rationality in philosophical accounts of action, in decision theory, and in the theory of rational choice. He gives examples of the ways in which rationality is involved in the writing and reading of literary works, ranging from Icelandic sagas to Beckett, Dreiser, Lem, Poe and Zola. Topics examined include the role of concepts of desire, intention, and planning in action explanations, the relation between cognition and motivation, the rationality of desire, atomic versus agential perspectives on rationality, the rationality of groups and institutions, and the question of the rationality of science.

目次

  • Introduction: literature and rationality
  • Part I. Theories and Questions: 1. Rationality: some basic issues
  • 2. Agency, rationality, and literary knowledge
  • Part II. Textual Models: 3. Naturalism and the question of agency
  • 4. Agent's rationality
  • 5. Plans and irrationality
  • 6. Science, reason and society Coda: 'Der Bau'
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.

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