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Author:   Garry L. Hagberg (Bard College, NY)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.736kg
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9780198715719

ISBN 10:   0198715714
Pages:   402
Publication Date:   24 March 2016
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Garry L. Hagberg: Introduction: Five Ethical Aspects of Literature Part I: Ways of Reading for Ethical Content 1: Nora Hämäläinen: Sophie, Antigone, Elizabeth: Rethinking Ethics by Reading Literature 2: Eileen John: Caring about Characters 3: Robert B. Pierce: Hamlet and the Problem of Moral Agency Part II: Matters of Character 4: Garry L. Hagberg: Othello's Paradox: The Place of Character in Literary Experience 5: Noel Carroll: Character, Social Information, and the Challenge of Psychology 6: Valerie Wainwright: Emma's Extravagance: Jane Austen and the Character-Situation Debate Part III: Literature, Subjectivity, and Poetic Vision 7: Richard Eldridge: The Question of Truth in Literature 8: J. Jeremy Wisnewski: The Moral Relevance of Literature and the Limits of Argument: Lessons from Heidegger, Aristotle, and Coetzee 9: Jonathan Strauss: An Endless Person: Heidegger, Breton, and Nadja at the Limits of Language Part IV: Language, Dialogical Identity, and Self-Understanding 10: Tony Gash: The Dialogic Self in Hamlet: On How Dramatic Form Transforms Philosophical Inquiry 11: Richard Dawson: 'The Power of Conversation': Jane Austen's Persuasion and Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics 12: Stephen Mulhall: Quartet: Wallace's Wittgenstein, Moran's Amis Part V: Patterns and Possibilities of Moral Growth 13: Alan Goldman: Moral Development in Pride and Prejudice 14: Daniel Brudney: The Breadth of Moral Character 15: Mitchell S. Green: Learning to be Good (or Bad) in (or Through) Literature Part VI: Historical Genealogies of Moral-Aesthetic Concepts 16: Humberto Brito: In Praise of Aristotle's Poetics 17: Martin Donougho: Shaftesbury as Virtuoso: Or, The Birth of Aesthetics Out of a Spirit of Civility 18: Jules Brody: Fate, Philology, Freud Index

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The rich variety of this collection contains ... surprising insight. Ole Martin Skille@as, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, and has in recent years also been Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. Author of numerous papers at the intersection of aesthetics and the philosophy of language, his books include Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge; Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory; and Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness. He is editor of Art and Ethical Criticism, co-editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, and Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature.

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