Close Encounters: A Poetic Philosophy of Political Analysis

by Andrew Davison

What would it look like to approach data with the care and attentiveness that we bring to a poem? Andrew Davison proposes a new philosophy of data modeled on the affective and ethical qualities of the encounter between a reader and a literary text and demonstrates its significance for understanding urgent social and political issues.

In a cross-disciplinary engagement with philosophical, literary, and political-theoretical accounts of poetic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231218486
• ISBN13: 9780231218481
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages