Fictional characters, real problems the search for ethical content in literature
This striking collection of new essays, written by an international team of philosophers and literary scholars, pursues a fuller and richer understanding of five of the central aspects of this ethical content. After a first section setting out and precisely articulating some particularly helpful way...
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Oxford, New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2016
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This striking collection of new essays, written by an international team of philosophers and literary scholars, pursues a fuller and richer understanding of five of the central aspects of this ethical content. After a first section setting out and precisely articulating some particularly helpful ways of reading for ethical content, these five aspects include: (1) the question of character, its formation, and its role in moral discernment; (2) the power, importance, and inculcation of what we might call poetic vision in the context of ethical understanding and that special kind of vision's importance in human life; (3) literature's distinctive role in self-identity and self-understanding; (4) an investigation into some patterns of moral growth and change that can emerge from the philosophical reading of literature; and (5) a consideration of the historical sources and genealogies of some of our most central contemporary conceptions of the ethical dimension of literature. In addition to Jane Austen, whose work we encounter frequently and from multiple points of view in this engaging collection, we see Greek tragedy, Homer, Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, E. M. Forster, Andre Breton, Kingsley Amis, Joyce Carol Oates, William Styron, J. M. Coetzee, and David Foster Wallace, among others. And the philosophers in this five-strand interweave include Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Shaftesbury, Kant, Hegel, Freud, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, Levinas, and a number of recent figures from both Anglophone and continental contexts.-- Ways of reading for ethical content -- Matters of character -- Literature, subjectivity, and poetic vision -- Language, dialogical identity, and self-understanding -- Patterns and possibilities of moral growth -- Historical genealogies of moral-aesthetic concepts |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 367-382 |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 389 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780198715719 978-0-19-871571-9 |