Love's Knowledge

Essays on Philosophy and Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-0-19-507485-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nussbaum, Martha Craven

Nussbaum, Martha C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung