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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 andcontent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992, ©1990.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : form and content, philosophy and literature
  • The discernment of perception : an Aristotelian conception of private and public rationality
  • Plato on commensurability and desire
  • Flawed crystals : James's The golden bowl and literature as moral philosophy
  • "Finely aware and richly responsible" : literature and the moral imagination
  • Sophistry about conventions
  • Reading for life
  • Fictions of the soul
  • Love's knowledge
  • Narrative emotions : Beckett's genealogy of love
  • Love and the individual : romantic rightness and Platonic aspiration
  • Steerforth's arm : love and the moral point of view
  • Transcending humanity.