Virtues and Passions in Literature (eBook, PDF)

Excellence, Courage, Engagements, Wisdom, Fulfilment

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherland
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402064227
• Artikelnr.: 37350512

Autorenporträt

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".

Inhaltsangabe

Section I.- Historical and Contemporary Virtues As Reflected in Chinese Literatre.- Revisiting the Traditional Virtues of the Hero.- Beauty, Taste, and Enlightenment in Hume’s Aesthetic Thought.- Section II.- Virtues of the Heart.- The Willing Subject and the Non-Willing Subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche’s Hyperborean.- Virtue in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead.- Section III.- Inherent and Intentional Inquiries on Virtues.- Striving and Accepting Limits As Competing Meta-Virtues.- Happiness, Division, and Illusions of the Self in Plato’s Symposium.- The Virtue of Responsibility.- Section IV.- Enlightenment, Humanization, and Beauty in The Light of Schiller’s “Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man”.- Beyond Adaptation.- Between the Ironic and the Irenic.- Phenomenological Temporality and Proustian Nostalgia.- Section V.- Art and Awareness.- The Image in the History of Thought.- The Narrative Model.- Political Symbolism in the Saint Antoine Gate, 1585–1672.- Music Theory and Phenomenology of Musical Performance.

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Section I.- Historical and Contemporary Virtues As Reflected in Chinese Literatre.- Revisiting the Traditional Virtues of the Hero.- Beauty, Taste, and Enlightenment in Hume's Aesthetic Thought.- Section II.- Virtues of the Heart.- The Willing Subject and the Non-Willing Subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's Hyperborean.- Virtue in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead.- Section III.- Inherent and Intentional Inquiries on Virtues.- Striving and Accepting Limits As Competing Meta-Virtues.- Happiness, Division, and Illusions of the Self in Plato's Symposium.- The Virtue of Responsibility.- Section IV.- Enlightenment, Humanization, and Beauty in The Light of Schiller's "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man".- Beyond Adaptation.- Between the Ironic and the Irenic.- Phenomenological Temporality and Proustian Nostalgia.- Section V.- Art and Awareness.- The Image in the History of Thought.- The Narrative Model.- Political Symbolism in the Saint Antoine Gate, 1585-1672.- Music Theory and Phenomenology of Musical Performance.