Counterfactuals: Paths of the Might have Been
Autor Christopher Prendergasten Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 apr 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350090095
ISBN-10: 1350090093
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350090093
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Counterfactuals are everywhere in our post-truth, post-fact world. They are now commonplace features of journalism and political debates.
Notă biografică
Christopher Prendergast is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. He writes for the London Review of Books and the New Left Review.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Conjectural Breeze of Time Chapter One: A Naile, a Nose and a Traitor Chapter Two: Just the Facts, Ma'am Chapter Three: Flying Blind: Angelus Novus and Allegory of Prudence Chapter Four: Crossroads: Three Tales, Three Gamblers Chapter Five: Looking Back: from Metanoia to Buyer's Regret Chapter Six: Not, Never or Forever Being Me Chapter Seven: On the Run with Fernando PessoaIndex
Recenzii
Here's a counterfactual: if this book were less good, it would be easier to review. It's quite rare to come across a book like this which is, quite simply, for the humanities. If we imagine a world where this book had no audience, where, say, the meanings of Petrarch's climb and Ignatius' indecision were forgotten, it would be a much colder and less wise one.
[These] books are sophisticated straws in a rising wind.
[These books] add up to more than the sum of two deeply meditated, extensively researched projects ... [They] invite more interesting questions than I can count.
Christopher Prendergast's wide-ranging and philosophically informed investigation of counterfactuals is a revelation. Counterfactual conjectures, we learn, wend their way through centuries of Western thought on numerous topics: the vagaries of chance, the mysteries of time, and the fragility of personal identity. They link metaphysical speculation to utopian longing and the pain of personal regret. Prendergast's encounters with them reveal both their ubiquity and their strangeness.
Prendergast uses the rich idea of counterfactuals as a point of departure for a deft exploration of key works of literature and philosophy. This is an intellectually adventurous and highly stimulating book.
'In this witty and erudite book, Prendergast offers a startling range of reflections and analyses of the realm of possibility, bringing his command of sources from fiction and science, history and philosophy, to bear on fundamental questions of reality and truth, persuasion and evidence. The work offers an indispensable guide and caution to many of contemporary society's most pressing obsessions and errors: the strange appeal of fantasy and the power of the fake. In raising so clearly the ways to deal with the puzzle of what might have been, whether with regret or with relief, this is a major accomplishment of a literary critic and scholar at the top of his game.
[These] books are sophisticated straws in a rising wind.
[These books] add up to more than the sum of two deeply meditated, extensively researched projects ... [They] invite more interesting questions than I can count.
Christopher Prendergast's wide-ranging and philosophically informed investigation of counterfactuals is a revelation. Counterfactual conjectures, we learn, wend their way through centuries of Western thought on numerous topics: the vagaries of chance, the mysteries of time, and the fragility of personal identity. They link metaphysical speculation to utopian longing and the pain of personal regret. Prendergast's encounters with them reveal both their ubiquity and their strangeness.
Prendergast uses the rich idea of counterfactuals as a point of departure for a deft exploration of key works of literature and philosophy. This is an intellectually adventurous and highly stimulating book.
'In this witty and erudite book, Prendergast offers a startling range of reflections and analyses of the realm of possibility, bringing his command of sources from fiction and science, history and philosophy, to bear on fundamental questions of reality and truth, persuasion and evidence. The work offers an indispensable guide and caution to many of contemporary society's most pressing obsessions and errors: the strange appeal of fantasy and the power of the fake. In raising so clearly the ways to deal with the puzzle of what might have been, whether with regret or with relief, this is a major accomplishment of a literary critic and scholar at the top of his game.