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This volume brings together Martha Nussbaum's published papers, some revised for this collection, on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. It also includes two new essays and a substantial Introduction.
The papers, many of them previously not readily available to non-specialist readers, explore such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical questions; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and style; and the role of the emotions in deliberation and self-knowledge. The author investigates and defends a conception of ethical understanding which involves emotional as well as intellectual activity, and which gives a certain type of priority to the perception of particular people and situations rather than to abstract rule.
Contents
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
9: Reading for Life
10: Fictions of the Soul
11: Love's Knowledge
12: Narrative Emotions: Beckett's Geneology of Love
13: Love and the Individual: Romantic Rightness and Platonic Aspiration
14: Steerforth's Arm: Love and the Moral Point of View
15: Transcending Humanity
