Virtues and Passions in Literature

Excellence, Courage, Engagements, Wisdom, Fulfilment

348 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Section I.- Historical and Contemporary Virtues As Reflected in Chinese Literatre.- Revisiting the Traditional Virtues of the Hero.- Beauty, Taste, and Enlightenment in Hume's Aesthetic Thought.- Section II.- Virtues of the Heart.- The Willing Subject and the Non-Willing Subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's Hyperborean.- Virtue in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead.- Section III.- Inherent and Intentional Inquiries on Virtues.- Striving and Accepting Limits As Competing Meta-Virtues.- Happiness, Division, and Illusions of the Self in Plato's Symposium.- The Virtue of Responsibility.- Section IV.- Enlightenment, Humanization, and Beauty in The Light of Schiller's "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man".- Beyond Adaptation.- Between the Ironic and the Irenic.- Phenomenological Temporality and Proustian Nostalgia.- Section V.- Art and Awareness.- The Image in the History of Thought.- The Narrative Model.- Political Symbolism in the Saint Antoine Gate, 1585-1672.- Music Theory and Phenomenology of Musical Performance.

• Reihe: Analecta Husserliana
• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Philosophie Themen der Philosophie Ethik und Moralphilosophie
• ISBN: 9789048176366
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.11.2010
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka