Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description demonstrates that Elizabeth Bennet and her creator are misunderstood, and often unrecognized, geniuses of moral philosophy, but not simply because of their virtue or wit or natural skills in game theory.
Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description demonstrates that Elizabeth Bennet and her creator are misunderstood, and often unrecognized, geniuses of moral philosophy, but not simply because of their virtue or wit or natural skills in game theory.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Brett Bourbon received his Ph.D. from Harvard, where he studied literature and philosophy. He was a professor at Stanford for ten years, and is now an Associate professor of English at the University of Dallas. He has received a Fulbright Award, a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the Harvard English Scholar Award, and the top teaching awards at both the University of Dallas and Stanford. He is the author of Finding a Replacement for the Soul: Meaning and Mind in Literature and Philosophy (2004), as well as Everyday Poetics: Ethics, Love, and Logic (2022). He has published numerous essays on philosophy, literature, and art. He is also a published poet and fiction writer.
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Preface Part I: Jane Austen and the Powers of Description 1 Disciplines of Description 2 Reading Ignorance into Sense 3 Elizabeth Bennet, the Socrates of Descriptive Reason 4 Frank and Impertinent: Paradiastolic Descriptions 5 An Excursus on Richard Rorty and Lady Catherine 6 Fanny's Garden Thoughts 7 Reasoning by Description 8 Coda: "Part Hawk, Part Man" Part II: The Apprehension of Power and Life Prologue 9 The Cook and the Count: A Psychological Anthropology of Tyranny 10 Is Power Coercive? 11 A Parable of Action and Event 12 The Afflictions of Life: Montale's Poetic Description of Flux 13 What Is a Life? 14 A Concluding Postscript
Preface Part I: Jane Austen and the Powers of Description 1 Disciplines of Description 2 Reading Ignorance into Sense 3 Elizabeth Bennet, the Socrates of Descriptive Reason 4 Frank and Impertinent: Paradiastolic Descriptions 5 An Excursus on Richard Rorty and Lady Catherine 6 Fanny's Garden Thoughts 7 Reasoning by Description 8 Coda: "Part Hawk, Part Man" Part II: The Apprehension of Power and Life Prologue 9 The Cook and the Count: A Psychological Anthropology of Tyranny 10 Is Power Coercive? 11 A Parable of Action and Event 12 The Afflictions of Life: Montale's Poetic Description of Flux 13 What Is a Life? 14 A Concluding Postscript
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