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Playing the Hand We Are Dealt

Playing the Hand We Are Dealt

Michael Jackson

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Berghahn Books
Año de edición:
2024
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Filosofía
ISBN:
9781805397045
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The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the ’hand we are dealt’ which is reducible to the social or familial environments into which we are born, this book explores the idea of fate through the books that shape our lives and under whose influence we write. Writing in this sense is seen as beyond its utility of making meaning. It is a way of recovering agency in the face of overwhelming experiences. In juxtaposing factuality and fiction, the author makes a case for a radically empirical approach to human experience.

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