Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature by Michael Austin

Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature

Michael Austin

192 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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“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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