Literature, Social Wisdom and Global Justice: D, Bracher..

Name: Literature, Social Wisdom and Global Justice: D, Bracher..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Literature, Social Wisdom, and Global JusticeDeveloping Systems Thinking through Literary Study\nAuthor(s): Mark Bracher\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032247694, 978-1032247694\nSynopsis\nThis book responds to the pressing and increasingly recognized need to cultivate social wisdom for addressing major problems confronting humanity. Connecting literary studies with some of the biggest questions confronted by researchers and students today, the book provides a practical approach to thinking through, and potentially solving, global problems such as poverty, inequality, crime, war, racism, classism, environmental decline, and climate change.\n\nBracher argues that solving such problems requires systems thinking and that literary study is an excellent way to develop the four key cognitive functions of which systems thinking is composed, which are causal analysis, prospection/strategic planning, social cognition, a.