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This edited collection investigates the kinds of moral reflection
we can undertake within the imaginative worlds of literature. In
philosophical contexts of ethical inquiry we can too easily forget
that literary experience can play an important role in the
cultivation of our ethical sensibilities. Because our ethical lives
are conducted in the real world, fictional representations of this
world can appear removed from ethical contemplation. However, as
this stimulating volume shows, the dichotomy between fact and
fiction cannot be so easily categorised. Moral perception, moral
sensitivity, and ethical understanding more broadly, may all be
developed in a unique way through our imaginative life in fiction.
Moral quandaries are often presented in literature in ways more
linguistically precise and descriptively complete than the ones we
encounter in life, whilst simultaneously offering space for
contemplation. The twelve original chapters in this volume examine
literary texts - including theatre and film - in this light, and
taken together they show how serious reflection within fictional
worlds can lead to a depth of humane insight. The topics explored
include: the subtle ways that knowledge can function as a virtue;
issues concerning our relations to and understanding of each other;
the complex intertwining of virtues and vices in the modern world;
and the importance of bringing to light and reconsidering ethical
presuppositions. With an appreciation of the importance of richly
contextualized particularity and the power of descriptive acuity,
the volume maps out the territory that philosophical reflection and
literary engagement share.
This edited collection investigates the kinds of moral reflection
we can undertake within the imaginative worlds of literature. In
philosophical contexts of ethical inquiry we can too easily forget
that literary experience can play an important role in the
cultivation of our ethical sensibilities. Because our ethical lives
are conducted in the real world, fictional representations of this
world can appear removed from ethical contemplation. However, as
this stimulating volume shows, the dichotomy between fact and
fiction cannot be so easily categorised. Moral perception, moral
sensitivity, and ethical understanding more broadly, may all be
developed in a unique way through our imaginative life in fiction.
Moral quandaries are often presented in literature in ways more
linguistically precise and descriptively complete than the ones we
encounter in life, whilst simultaneously offering space for
contemplation. The twelve original chapters in this volume examine
literary texts - including theatre and film - in this light, and
taken together they show how serious reflection within fictional
worlds can lead to a depth of humane insight. The topics explored
include: the subtle ways that knowledge can function as a virtue;
issues concerning our relations to and understanding of each other;
the complex intertwining of virtues and vices in the modern world;
and the importance of bringing to light and reconsidering ethical
presuppositions. With an appreciation of the importance of richly
contextualized particularity and the power of descriptive acuity,
the volume maps out the territory that philosophical reflection and
literary engagement share.
This book investigates the scope and significance of Stanley
Cavell's lifelong and lasting contribution to aesthetic
understanding. Focusing on various strands of the rich body of
Cavell's philosophical work, the authors explore connections
between his wide-ranging writings on literature, music, film,
opera, autobiography, Wittgenstein, and Austin to contemporary
currents in aesthetic thinking. Most centrally, the writings
brought together here from an international team of senior,
mid-career, and emerging scholars, explore the illuminating power
of Cavell's work for our deeper and richer comprehension of the
intricate relations between aesthetic and ethical understanding.
The chapters show what aesthetic understanding consists of, how
such understanding might be articulated in the tradition of Cavell
following Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and why this mode of human
understanding is particularly important. At a time of quickening
interest in Cavell and the tradition of which he is a central part
and present-day leading exponent, this book offers insight into the
deepest contributions of a major American philosopher and the
profound role that aesthetic experience can play in the humane
understanding of persons, society, and culture.
This book investigates the scope and significance of Stanley
Cavell's lifelong and lasting contribution to aesthetic
understanding. Focusing on various strands of the rich body of
Cavell's philosophical work, the authors explore connections
between his wide-ranging writings on literature, music, film,
opera, autobiography, Wittgenstein, and Austin to contemporary
currents in aesthetic thinking. Most centrally, the writings
brought together here from an international team of senior,
mid-career, and emerging scholars, explore the illuminating power
of Cavell's work for our deeper and richer comprehension of the
intricate relations between aesthetic and ethical understanding.
The chapters show what aesthetic understanding consists of, how
such understanding might be articulated in the tradition of Cavell
following Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and why this mode of human
understanding is particularly important. At a time of quickening
interest in Cavell and the tradition of which he is a central part
and present-day leading exponent, this book offers insight into the
deepest contributions of a major American philosopher and the
profound role that aesthetic experience can play in the humane
understanding of persons, society, and culture.
This book investigates the significance of Wittgenstein's
philosophy for aesthetic understanding. Focusing on the aesthetic
elements of Wittgenstein's philosophical work, the authors explore
connections to contemporary currents in aesthetic thinking and the
illuminating power of Wittgenstein's philosophy when considered in
connection with the interpretation of specific works of literature,
music, and the arts. Taken together, the chapters presented here
show what aesthetic understanding consists of and the ways we
achieve it, how it might be articulated, and why it is important.
At a time of strong renewal of interest in Wittgenstein's
contributions to the philosophy of mind and language, this book
offers insight into the connections between
philosophical-psychological and linguistic issues and the
understanding of the arts.
This book investigates the significance of Wittgenstein's
philosophy for aesthetic understanding. Focusing on the aesthetic
elements of Wittgenstein's philosophical work, the authors explore
connections to contemporary currents in aesthetic thinking and the
illuminating power of Wittgenstein's philosophy when considered in
connection with the interpretation of specific works of literature,
music, and the arts. Taken together, the chapters presented here
show what aesthetic understanding consists of and the ways we
achieve it, how it might be articulated, and why it is important.
At a time of strong renewal of interest in Wittgenstein's
contributions to the philosophy of mind and language, this book
offers insight into the connections between
philosophical-psychological and linguistic issues and the
understanding of the arts.
This stimulating volume brings together an international team of
emerging, mid-career, and senior scholars to investigate the
relations between philosophical approaches to language and the
language of literature. It has proven easy for philosophers of
language to leave literary language to one side, just as it has
proven easy for literary scholars to discuss questions of meaning
separately from relevant issues in the philosophy of language. This
volume brings the two together in mutually enlightening ways:
considerations of literary meaning are deepened by adding
philosophical approaches, just as philosophical issues are enriched
by bringing them into contact or interweaving them with literary
cases in all their subtlety.
This exciting new edited collection bridges the gap between
narrative and self-understanding. The problem of self-knowledge is
of universal interest; the nature or character of its achievement
has been one continuing thread in our philosophical tradition for
millennia. Likewise the nature of storytelling, the assembly of
individual parts of a potential story into a coherent narrative
structure, has been central to the study of literature. But how do
we gain knowledge from an artform that is by definition fictional,
by definition not a matter of ascertained fact, as this applies to
the understanding of our lives? When we see ourselves in the
mimetic mirror of literature, what we see may not just be a matter
of identifying with a single protagonist, but also a matter of
recognizing long-form structures, long-arc narrative shapes that
give a place to - and thus make sense of - the individual bits of
experience that we place into those structures. But of course at
precisely this juncture a question arises: do we make that sense,
or do we discover it? The twelve chapters brought together here
lucidly and steadily reveal how the matters at hand are far more
intricate and interesting than any such dichotomy could
accommodate. This is a book that investigates the ways in which
life and literature speak to each other.
This exciting new edited collection bridges the gap between
narrative and self-understanding. The problem of self-knowledge is
of universal interest; the nature or character of its achievement
has been one continuing thread in our philosophical tradition for
millennia. Likewise the nature of storytelling, the assembly of
individual parts of a potential story into a coherent narrative
structure, has been central to the study of literature. But how do
we gain knowledge from an artform that is by definition fictional,
by definition not a matter of ascertained fact, as this applies to
the understanding of our lives? When we see ourselves in the
mimetic mirror of literature, what we see may not just be a matter
of identifying with a single protagonist, but also a matter of
recognizing long-form structures, long-arc narrative shapes that
give a place to - and thus make sense of - the individual bits of
experience that we place into those structures. But of course at
precisely this juncture a question arises: do we make that sense,
or do we discover it? The twelve chapters brought together here
lucidly and steadily reveal how the matters at hand are far more
intricate and interesting than any such dichotomy could
accommodate. This is a book that investigates the ways in which
life and literature speak to each other.
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