Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions

Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions

Asher, Kenneth (State University of New York, Geneseo)

Cambridge University Press

04/2017

194

Dura

Inglês

9781107185951

15 a 20 dias

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.
Introduction; 1. Literature as the recalibration of emotions; 2. T. S. Eliot's emotive theory of poetry; 3. D. H. Lawrence: primal consciousness and the function of emotion; 4. Epistemology and ethics in Virginia Woolf; 5. George Bernard Shaw: history as cosmic comedy; Conclusion.
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