Mirrors to one another
Subtitle: emotion and value in Jane Austen and David Hume
By: E.M. Dadlez.
Series: New directions in aesthetics
Publisher: John Wiley
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781405193481
Subjects: Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Philosophy; Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Knowledge -- Ethics; Hume, David, -- 1711-1776 -- Ethics; Literature and morals; Ethics in literature; Literature -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How literature can be a thought experiment: alternatives to and elaborations of original accounts; title: Literary form and philosophical content; title: Kantian and Aristotelian accounts of Austen; title: Hume and Austen on pleasure, sentiment, and virtue; title: Hume and Austen on sympathy; title: Hume's general point of view and the novels of Jane Austen; title: The useful and the good in Hume and Austen; title: Aesthetics and Humean aesthetic norms in the novels of Jane Austen; title: Hume and Austen on good people and good reasoning; title: Lovers, friends, and other endearing appellations: marriage in Hume and Austen; title: Hume and Austen on pride; title: Hume and Austen on jealousy, envy, malice, and the principle of comparison; title: Indolence and industry in Hume and Austen; title: What Hume's philosophy contributes to our understanding of Austen's fiction; title: What Austen's fiction contributes to our understanding of Hume's philosophy.