Close Encounters - A Poetic Philosophy of Political Analysis

Andrew Davison proposes a new philosophy of data modeled on the affective and ethical qualities of the encounter between a reader and a literary text and demonstrates its significance for understanding urgent social and political issues.

About the author

Andrew Davison is professor of political science at Vassar College. He is the author of Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration (1998) and Border Thinking on the Edges of the West: Crossing Over the Hellespont (2014), among other publications.

Summary

Andrew Davison proposes a new philosophy of data modeled on the affective and ethical qualities of the encounter between a reader and a literary text and demonstrates its significance for understanding urgent social and political issues.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Davison, Davison Andrew
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.03.2025
• EAN: 9780231218474
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21847-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, COMPUTERS / Information Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Methodology, Political science & theory, Literary theory, Political science and theory, information architecture, Information theory