Jane Austen''s Emma - Philosophical Perspectives

What has Emma Woodhouse to say to a discipline like philosophy? The minutia of daily living on which Jane Austen's Emma concentrates our attention permit a closer look at human emotions and motives. Emma shows how friendships can affect one's ways of dealing with the world, how shame can reconfigure self-understanding. That is, Emma leads us to think philosophically.

About the author

E.M. Dadlez is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Oklahoma. Her work focuses on the philosophy of art and literature, and on topics at the intersection of aesthetics, ethics and epistemology. She is the author of various articles on aesthetics and feminist ethics, as well as What's Hecuba to Him? Fictional Events and Actual Emotions (Penn State Press) and Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume (Wiley-Blackwell).

Summary

What has Emma Woodhouse to say to a discipline like philosophy? The minutia of daily living on which Jane Austen's Emma concentrates our attention permit a closer look at human emotions and motives. Emma shows how friendships can affect one's ways of dealing with the world, how shame can reconfigure self-understanding. That is, Emma leads us to think philosophically.

Product details

• Authors: E. M. Dadlez, E.m. (Professor Dadlez
• Assisted by: E. M. Dadlez (Editor), E.M. Dadlez (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780190689414
• ISBN: 978-0-19-068941-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Lit; Oxford Studies in Philosophy a; Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Lit; Oxford Studies in Philosophy a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies