Love's knowledge : essays on philosophy and literature
This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical issues; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and styles; and the role of the emotions in deliberation and self-knowledge. Nussbaum investigates and defends a conception of ethical understanding which involves emotiona
1 online resource (xiv, 403 pages)
9780195074857, 9780199772094, 9781283113397, 9786613113399, 9780199879489, 0195074858, 0199772096, 1283113392, 6613113395, 0199879486
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Cover; Contents; List of Long and Short Titles; 1. Introduction: Form and Content, Philosophy and Literature; 2. The Discernment of Perception: An Aristotelian Conception of Private and Public Rationality; 3. Plato on Commensurability and Desire; 4. Flawed Crystals: James's The Golden Bowl and Literature as Moral Philosophy; 5. "Finely Aware and Richly Responsible": Literature and the Moral Imagination; 6. Perceptive Equilibrium: Literary Theory and Ethical Theory; 7. Perception and Revolution: The Princess Casamassima and the Political Imagination; 8. Sophistry About Conventions
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
Full text available: 1992. Available in eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) - North America.