Love's Knowledge

Love's Knowledge by Martha C Nussbaum

This volume brings together Martha Nussbaum's published papers, some revised for this collection, on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. It also includes two new essays and a substantial Introduction. The papers, many of them previously not readily available to non-specialist readers, explore such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical questions; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and style; and the role of the emotions in deliberation and self-knowledge. The author investigates and defends a conception of ethical understanding which involves emotional as well as intellectual activity, and which gives a certain type of priority to the perception of particular people and situations rather than to abstract rule.

The lucid and penetrating essays in Love's Knowledge demonstrate that Martha Nussbaum is the finest philosophic mind of her generation* Philosophy and Literature *
one of the most original books published [in 1991], a hugely stimulating read, which returns us with thoughts refreshed to some of our best-loved authors and brings philosophy back to earth in the process * Mark Archer, Observer *

Martha C. Nussbaum is Professor of Law and Ethics and the University of Chicago Law School.

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ISBN 13	9780195074857
ISBN 10	0195074858
Title	Love's Knowledge
Author	Martha C Nussbaum
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	1992-07-30
Number of pages	432
Prizes	Winner of Winner of the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamondstein prize for the best collection of essays in 1991.
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