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082			_a170 _bNUS-L
100			_aNussbaum, Martha C.
245			_aLove's knowledge : _bessays on philosophy and literature _cby Martha C. Nussbaum
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c©1990
300			_axiv, 403 p. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505			_t1. Introduction : form and content, philosophy and literature
505			_t2. The discernment of perception: an Aristotelian conception of private and public rationality
505			_t3. Plato on commensurability and desire
505			_t4. Flawed crystals: James's The golden bowl and literature as moral philosophy
505			_t5. "Finely aware and richly responsible" : literature and the moral imagination
505			_t6. Perceptive equilibrium: literary theory and ethical theory
505			_t7. Perception and revolution: the princess asamassima and the political imagination
505			_t8. Sophistry about conventions
505			_t9. Reading for life
505			_t10. Fictions of the soul
505			_t11. Love's knowledge
505			_t12. Narrative emotions : Beckett's genealogy of love
505			_t13. Love and the individual : romantic rightness and Platonic aspiration
505			_t14. Steerforth's arm : love and the moral point of view
505			_t15. Transcending humanity
520			_aThis 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, explore such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical issues; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and styles; and the role of the emotions in deliberation and self-knowledge. Nussbaum 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 rules. She argues that this ethical conception cannot be completely and appropriately stated without turning to forms of writing usually considered literary rather than philosophical. It is consequently necessary to broaden our conception of moral philosophy in order to include these forms. Featuring two new essays and revised versions of several previously published essays, this collection attempts to articulate the relationship, within such a broader ethical inquiry, between literary and more abstractly theoretical elements.
650			_aEthics & Moral Philosophy
650			_aPhilosophy in literature
650			_aLiterature and morals
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