Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature

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Martha C. Nussbaum (Professor of Law and Ethics, Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago, USA)

Love's Knowledge

Essays on Philosophy and Literature

Martha C. Nussbaum (Professor of Law and Ethics, Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago, USA)

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Oxford University Press Inc
30 July 1992

Literary theory; Philosophy; Ethics & moral philosophy

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 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 rules. She argues that this ethical conception cannot be completely and appropriately stated without turning to forms of writing usually considered literary rather than philosophical. It is consequently necessary to broaden our conception of moral philosophy in order to include these forms. Featuring two new essays and revised versions of several previously published essays, this collection attempts to articulate the relationship, within such a broader ethical inquiry, between literary and more abstractly theoretical elements.

By: Martha C. Nussbaum (Professor of Law and Ethics Professor of Law and Ethics University of Chicago USA)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780195074857
ISBN 10: 0195074858
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 30 July 1992
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"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"

Martha C. Nussbaum is Professor of Law and Ethics and the University of Chicago Law School.

Reviews for Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature

The lucid and penetrating essays in Love's Knowledge demonstrate that Martha Nussbaum is the finest philosophic mind of her generation. Philosophy and Literature one of the most original books published [in 1991], a hugely stimulating read, which returns us with thoughts refreshed to some of our best-loved authors and brings philosophy back to earth in the process Mark Archer, Observer