Love’s Knowledge by Martha Nussbaum
Essays on Philosophy and Literature
A collection of philosophical essays arguing that literature is indispensable to ethical understanding, showing how narrative form, style, and emotion cultivate practical wisdom. Drawing on Greek philosophy and close readings of novelists such as Henry James and Proust, it explores how love and other emotions shape moral perception, judgment, and responsiveness to particular lives. Critiquing overly abstract moral theory, it defends ethical criticism of literature and presents a humanistic vision in which novels function as a form of moral inquiry that trains the reader’s imagination and sense of responsibility.
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- Published
- 1990
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 430-470
- Original Language
- English
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