Description
Book SynopsisDrawing insights from cognitive and social neuroscience, this book uncovers the cognitive roots of social injustice and makes a powerful case that literature can positively alter the way we view others and promote social justice.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. The Psychological Basis for a Cognitive Politics of Social Justice
- Chapter 1. Cognitive Science for a New Social Criticism
- Part II. The Cognitive Roots of Injustice: Four Person-Schemas
- Chapter 2. Autonomism versus Situationism: Responsibility for Behavior and Life Outcomes
- Chapter 3. Essentialism versus Malleability: Responsibility for Character
- Chapter 4. Atomism versus Solidarity: Relation of Self to Others
- Chapter 5. Homogeneity versus Heterogeneity: The Structure of Character
- Part III. How Protest Novels Work to Replace Faulty Person-Schemas
- Chapter 6. The Jungle
- Chapter 7. The Grapes of Wrath
- Chapter 8. Native Son
- Part IV. A Radical Cognitive Social Criticism
- Chapter 9. Schema Criticism: Radical Cognitive Politics
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
