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.

A propos de l'auteur

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).

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: E. M. Dadlez, E.m. (Professor Dadlez
• Collaboration: E. M. Dadlez (Editeur), E.M. Dadlez (Editeur), Dadlez E.M. (Editeur)
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780190689414
• ISBN: 978-0-19-068941-4
• Pages: 264
• Thèmes: Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Lit; Oxford Studies in Philosophy a; Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Lit; Oxford Studies in Philosophy a
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Literary studies: general, Ethics and moral philosophy