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171 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780803230262
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 01 January 2011
Description
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion observed in The White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions. Why, in particular, are human beings, whose very survival depends on obtaining true information, so drawn ...
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171 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780803230262
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 01 January 2011
Description
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion observed in The White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions. Why, in particular, are human beings, whose very survival depends on obtaining true information, so drawn ...