Seven Modes of Uncertainty

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.

• | Author: C. Namwali Serpell
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: April 30, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 408 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674729099
• | ISBN-13: 9780674729094