Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of FictionHarvard University Press, 2007 - 252 Seiten With Comeuppance, William Flesch delivers the freshest, most generous thinking about the novel since Walter Benjamin wrote on the storyteller and Wayne C. Booth on the rhetoric of fiction. In clear and engaging prose, Flesch integrates evolutionary psychology into literary studies, creating a new theory of fiction in which form and content flawlessly intermesh. |
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... True altruism is by definition irrational , in the sense of rationality given by rational choice models of economic behav- ior : that is , I choose those things that reason would expect would yield the optimal outcome for me . An act of ...
... true altruism will thrive , and then that group will thrive . Note that the selectors in such a group , as well as ... true altruists depend on the true altruism of those randomly arising people who prefer true altruists to rational ...
... true story of what he could have done , which is an honest signal of his powers because he alone could have thought of it.1 His power over her is like the authoritative power that purveyors of plot or contrivance or narrative have over ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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