Author: Vivek Santayana
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Asher, Kenneth, Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions
Kenneth Asher, Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017) 194 pp. $80 PDF, £75 Hb. ISBN: 9781107185951 In Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions, Kenneth Asher takes further what he describes as the ‘ethical turn’ in literary studies (175). At a time when literary theory was dominated by deconstruction, postmodernism and a scepticism…
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Harman, Graham, Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory
Graham Harman, Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory (Cambridge: Polity 2016) 140pp. £9.99 Pb, £40.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781509500963 In Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory, Graham Harman examines the status of objects as part of his ongoing project of Object-Oriented Ontology. According to Object-Oriented Ontology, as well as the related perspective of Actor-Network Theory, one of the…
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Ferngren, Gary B., Medicine and Religion: a Historical Introduction
Gary B. Ferngren, Medicine and Religion: a Historical Introduction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) 256 pp. Hb $49.95, Pb, EPub, Mobi, PDF $24.95. ISBN: 9781421412153 Gary Ferngren’s Medicine and Religion is a survey of the intersections between medical practices, broadly defined, and religious traditions across different societies and historical periods in the Western world.…
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Marsden, Ben and Hazel Hutchison and Ralph O’Connor (eds), Uncommon Contexts: Encounters Between Science and Literature, 1800-1914
Marsden, Ben, Hazel Hutchison and Ralph O’Connor, eds. Uncommon Contexts: Encounters Between Science and Literature, 1800-1914. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. 256pp £60 HB ISBN 978-1-84893-362-0 In his introduction, Ben Marsden frames Uncommon Contexts as a rejection of C.P. Snow’s dichotomy between the ‘two cultures’ of literature and science. Marsden’s objective in this collection is to cut across…
