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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Bauman, Zygmunt (1925-2017)
Mazzeo, Riccardo
Titre(s) : In praise of literature [Texte imprimé] / Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo
Publication : Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity press, 2016
Description matérielle : xiv, 158 pages ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
"In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue
of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more
generally, a branch of the humanities claiming scientific status). While many commentators
see literature and sociology as radically different vocations, Bauman and Mazzeo argue
that they are bound together by a common purpose and a shared subject matter. Despite
the many differences in terms of their methods and their ways of presenting their
findings, novels and sociological texts are not at cross-purposes. Indeed, it is precisely
their differences that make them at once indispensable to each other and mutually
complementary. The writers of novels and of sociological texts may explore their world
from different perspectives, seeking and producing different types of 'data', but
their products bear the unmistakable marks of their shared origin. They feed each
other and depend on each other in terms of their agenda, their discoveries and the
contents of their messages. In a world characterized by the continuous search for
new sensations and the fetishism of consumption, they bring fundamental existential
questions back to the public agenda. Literature and sociology reveal the truth of
the human condition only when they stay in one another's company, remaining attentive
to each other's findings and engaged in a continuous dialogue. For only together can
they rise to the challenging task of untangling and laying bare the complex intertwining
of biography and history as well as of individual and society that totality we are
constantly shaping while being shaped by it"
Sujet(s) : Littérature et société
Littérature -- Théorie littéraire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781509502684. - ISBN 1509502688. - ISBN 9781509502691. - ISBN 1509502696
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44346423k
Notice n° :
FRBNF44346423
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