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Hardcover Literature and Rationality: Ideas of Agency in Theory and Fiction Book

ISBN: 0521405408

ISBN13: 9780521405409

Literature and Rationality: Ideas of Agency in Theory and Fiction

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This book explores concepts of rationality drawn from philosophy and the social sciences, in relation to traditions of literary enquiry. The author surveys basic assumptions and questions in philosophical accounts of action, in decision theory, and in the theory of rational choice. He gives examples ranging from Icelandic sagas to Poe and Beckett, and examines some situations and actions drawn from American and European fiction in order to analyze...

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