| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) |
| Series |
New directions in aesthetics ; 8 |
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New directions in aesthetics ; 8
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| Contents |
Mirrors to One Another; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 How Literature Can Be a Thought Experiment: Alternatives to and Elaborations of Original Accounts; 2 Literary Form and Philosophical Content; 3 Kantian and Aristotelian Accounts of Austen; 4 Hume and Austen on Pleasure, Sentiment, and Virtue; 5 Hume and Austen on Sympathy; 6 Hume's General Point of View and the Novels of Jane Austen; 7 The Useful and the Good in Hume and Austen; 8 Aesthetics and Humean Aesthetic Norms in the Novels of Jane Austen; 9 Hume and Austen on Good People and Good Reasoning |
| Summary |
A compelling exploration of the convergence of Jane Austens literary themes and characters with David Humes views on morality and human nature.:.; Argues that the normative perspectives endorsed in Jane Austen's novels are best characterized in terms of a Humean approach, and that the merits of Hume's account of ethical, aesthetic and epistemic virtue are vividly illustrated by Austen's writing.; Illustrates how Hume and Austen complement one another, each providing a lens that allows us to expand and elaborate on the ideas of the other.; Proposes that literature may serve as a thought exper |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Ethics.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Philosophy.
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Hume, David, 1711-1776 -- Ethics.
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Ethics in literature.
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Literature and morals.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wiley InterScience (Online service)
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| ISBN |
1282117181 |
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1405193484 (Cloth) |
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1444310402 (electronic bk.) |
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1444310410 |
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9781282117181 |
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9781405193481 (Cloth) |
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9781444310405 (electronic bk.) |
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9781444310412 |
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