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Ethical Sense and Literary Significance: Deep Sociality the Cultural Agency of Imaginative Discourse
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Ethical Sense and Literary Significance: Deep Sociality the Cultural Agency of Imaginative Discourse
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Ethical Sense and Literary Significance: Deep Sociality the Cultural Agency of Imaginative Discourse
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Ethical Sense and Literary Significance connects literary and cultural history without reducing the literary to a mere expression of something else. It argues that affective differences between non-egocentric and egocentric registers of significance are integral to the bioculturally evolved deep sociality that verbal art addresses—often in unsettling and socially critical ways. Much imaginative discourse, in early societies as well as recent ones, brings ethical sense and literary significance together in ways that reveal their intricate but non-harmonized
entwinement.
Drawing on contemporary scholarship in the humanities and sciences, Donald R. Wehrs explores the implications of interdisciplinary approaches to topics central to a wide range of fields beyond literary studies, including neuroscience, anthropology, phenomenological philosophy, comparative history, and social psychology.