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Title: Poetic Justice : The Literary Imagination and Public Life by Martha C. Nussbaum ISBN: 0-8070-4109-2 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 30 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Summary: The relevance of literature
Comment: I read this book alongside Rorty's "Achieving Our Country." Both are concerned with similar themes; I was interested especially in how both authors addressed the relevance of literature in shaping our moral and political beliefs. But whereas Rorty's consideration of the moral value of literature is limited to a contrast with deconstructive approaches to literature, Nussbaum takes a more detailed approach. Using concrete studies of both works of fiction (Richard Wright's "Native Son" and several works by Dickens are featured prominently) and legal cases to reveal how a sense of the particular is developed and maintained through the reading of fiction, and may be applied to moral and judicial reasoning. Being attuned to particulars, she argues, allows for sympathetic identification (with characters in novels, and with defendants in trials), and thus a sense of compassion and mercy. This short, easy to read book is, I think, a good introduction to her work on both law and literature (subjects she teaches on at Chicago) -- the relation between which is developed further, in greater detail, in both "Love's Knowledge" and "Sex and Social Justice."
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Title: Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature by Martha Craven Nussbaum ISBN: 0195074858 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Upheavals of Thought : The Intelligence of Emotions by Martha C. Nussbaum ISBN: 0521531829 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education by Martha Craven Nussbaum ISBN: 0674179498 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues by Alasdair MacIntyre ISBN: 081269452X Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: 09 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth ISBN: 0520062108 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: February, 1990 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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