Love's knowledge: essays on philosophy and literature
โ Scribed by Nussbaum, Martha Craven
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2009;1990
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 403
- Edition
- Repr.
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
1: Introduction: Form and Content, Philosophy and Literature2: The Discernment of Perception: An Aristotelian Conception of Private and Public Rationality3: Plato on Commensurability and Desire4: Flawed Crystals: James's The Golden Bowl and Literature as Moral Philosophy5: "Finely Aware and Richly Responsible": Literature and the Moral Imagination6: Perceptive Equilibrium: Literary Theory and Ethical Theory7: Perception and Revolution: The Princess Casamassima and the Political Imagination8: Sophistry About Conventions9: Reading for Life10: Fictions of the Soul11: Love's Knowledge12: Narrative Emotions: Beckett's Geneology of Love13: Love and the Individual: Romantic Rightness and Platonic Aspiration14: Steerforth's Arm: Love and the Moral Point of View15: Transcending Humanity
โฆ Subjects
Bellettrie;Ethiek;Filosofie
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