Literature and moral theory
By: Nora Hämäläinen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781501305368
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Literature and morals; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric); English fiction; American fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
Description: "A comprehensive overview of the role of narrative literature in late 20th-century Anglo-American ethics, as part of a reconsideration of the roles of generalization and theory in moral philosophy"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. A Literary Turn in a Neo-Aristotelian Framework; title: 2. Literature, Moral Particularism and Anti-theory; title: 3. Generality in Literature; title: 4. Between Literature and Theory: Nussbaum and Murdoch; title: 5. Literature as a Criticism of Moral Theory; title: Bibliography; title: Index.