Love's Knowledge Essays on Philosophy and Literature

Name: Love's Knowledge Essays on Philosophy and Literature
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ISBN: 9780195054576

ISBN-10: 0195054571

ISBN-13: 9780195054576

Edition: 1990

Authors: Martha C. Nussbaum

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This 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…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/15/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.56" long x 1.39" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.