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Love's Knowledge Essays on Philosophy and Literature

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ISBN-10: 0195074858

ISBN-13: 9780195074857

Edition: 1992

Authors: Martha C. Nussbaum

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This volume brings together Martha Nussbaum's published papers, some revised for this collection, on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. It also includes two new essays and a substantial Introduction. The papers, many of them previously not readily available to non-specialist readers, explore such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical questions; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and style; and the role of the emotions in deliberation and self-knowledge. The author investigates and defends a conception of ethical understanding which…    
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Book details

List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/2/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.09" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

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