Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions
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ISBN-10
1107185955
ISBN-13
9781107185951
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 3rd, 2017
Print length
194 Pages
Weight
428 grams
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15.90 x 23.40 x 1.80 cms
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By exploring the history of moral philosophy, Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions shows how literature - novels, poetry, and drama - can each contribute to the crucial emotional understanding in ethics, addressing the issue of what literature can contribute to our ethical awareness that philosophy cannot.
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the ethical value of literature. However, how exactly does literature contribute to our ethical understanding? In Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions, Kenneth Asher argues that literary scholars should locate this question in the long and various history of moral philosophy. On the basis of his own reading of this history, Asher contends for the centrality of emotions in our ethical lives and shows how literature - novels, poetry, and drama - can each contribute to crucial emotional understanding. Individual chapters on T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and George Bernard Shaw give detailed analyses of how this contribution takes shape even in modernist authors who try to reconfigure the very nature of the self.
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