Description
In this influential collection of fourteen essays, Martha Nussbaum examines how literature and philosophy illuminate the complexities of human life. Engaging with writers including Henry James, Marcel Proust, Samuel Beckett, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Charles Dickens, she explores the ethical significance of emotions, love, desire, vulnerability, and self-knowledge alongside the contrasting traditions of Plato and Aristotle. Nussbaum argues that literature’s attention to particular lives and emotionally charged experience can deepen moral understanding in ways that abstract reasoning alone cannot. She concludes by considering literature’s vital role in education and its power to cultivate imagination, critical reflection, and a more nuanced understanding of ourselves and others.
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Oxford University Press, USA
Published Mar 11, 1992
432 pages
ISBN: 9780195074857
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First Published
1992
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eng
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