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| ISBN: | 9780199772094
0199772096
0195074858
9780195074857
9780199879489
0199879486
0195054571
9780195054576
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship between style andcontent 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 whichinvolves 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 ofwriting 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 therelationship, within such a broader ethical inquiry, between literary and more abstractly theoretical elements.
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| Awards: | 1991 PEN Spielvogel-Diamondstein Prize for the Best Collection of Essays.
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| Other form: | Print version: Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947- Love's knowledge. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992, ©1990 0195074858
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| Standard no.: | 9780195074857
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