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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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992, ©1990.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.