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C. Namwali Serpell
Seven Modes of Uncertainty [EPUB ebook]

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Literature is uncertain. Literature is good for us. These two ideas are often taken for granted. But what is the relationship between literature’s capacity to perplex and its ethical value? Seven Modes of Uncertainty contends that literary uncertainty is crucial to ethics because it pushes us beyond the limits of our experience.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 403 ● ISBN 9780674419674 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 3189189 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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