Mirrors to one another :
Dadlez, E. M. 1956-
Mirrors to one another : emotion and value in Jane Austen and David Hume / E.M. Dadlez. - 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages). - New directions in aesthetics ; 8 . - New directions in aesthetics ; 8. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index.
Mirrors to One Another; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 How Literature Can Be a Thought Experiment: Alternatives to and Elaborations of Original Accounts; 2 Literary Form and Philosophical Content; 3 Kantian and Aristotelian Accounts of Austen; 4 Hume and Austen on Pleasure, Sentiment, and Virtue; 5 Hume and Austen on Sympathy; 6 Hume's General Point of View and the Novels of Jane Austen; 7 The Useful and the Good in Hume and Austen; 8 Aesthetics and Humean Aesthetic Norms in the Novels of Jane Austen; 9 Hume and Austen on Good People and Good Reasoning.
A compelling exploration of the convergence of Jane Austens literary themes and characters with David Humes views on morality and human nature.:.; Argues that the normative perspectives endorsed in Jane Austen's novels are best characterized in terms of a Humean approach, and that the merits of Hume's account of ethical, aesthetic and epistemic virtue are vividly illustrated by Austen's writing.; Illustrates how Hume and Austen complement one another, each providing a lens that allows us to expand and elaborate on the ideas of the other.; Proposes that literature may serve as a thought exper.
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10.1002/9781444310412 doi
10.1002/9781444310412 Wiley InterScience http://www3.interscience.wiley.com
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --Philosophy.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --Ethics.
Hume, David, 1711-1776 --Ethics.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Literature and morals.
Ethics in literature.
Literature--Philosophy.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Ethics.
Ethics in literature.
Literature and morals.
Literature--Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Electronic books.
PR4038.P5 / D33 2009
823/.7
Mirrors to one another : emotion and value in Jane Austen and David Hume / E.M. Dadlez. - 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages). - New directions in aesthetics ; 8 . - New directions in aesthetics ; 8. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index.
Mirrors to One Another; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 How Literature Can Be a Thought Experiment: Alternatives to and Elaborations of Original Accounts; 2 Literary Form and Philosophical Content; 3 Kantian and Aristotelian Accounts of Austen; 4 Hume and Austen on Pleasure, Sentiment, and Virtue; 5 Hume and Austen on Sympathy; 6 Hume's General Point of View and the Novels of Jane Austen; 7 The Useful and the Good in Hume and Austen; 8 Aesthetics and Humean Aesthetic Norms in the Novels of Jane Austen; 9 Hume and Austen on Good People and Good Reasoning.
A compelling exploration of the convergence of Jane Austens literary themes and characters with David Humes views on morality and human nature.:.; Argues that the normative perspectives endorsed in Jane Austen's novels are best characterized in terms of a Humean approach, and that the merits of Hume's account of ethical, aesthetic and epistemic virtue are vividly illustrated by Austen's writing.; Illustrates how Hume and Austen complement one another, each providing a lens that allows us to expand and elaborate on the ideas of the other.; Proposes that literature may serve as a thought exper.
9781444310412 1444310410 9781444310405 1444310402 1282117181 9781282117181 1405193484 9781405193481
10.1002/9781444310412 doi
10.1002/9781444310412 Wiley InterScience http://www3.interscience.wiley.com
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --Philosophy.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --Ethics.
Hume, David, 1711-1776 --Ethics.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Literature and morals.
Ethics in literature.
Literature--Philosophy.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Ethics.
Ethics in literature.
Literature and morals.
Literature--Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Electronic books.
PR4038.P5 / D33 2009
823/.7