Henry James and Modern Moral Life

ISBN-13: 9780521655477 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 206 str.

Robert B. Pippin

Opis

This important new book argues that Henry James' fiction reveals a sophisticated theory of moral understanding and moral motivation. The claim is that James is engaged in a distinctive kind of original thinking and reflecting on modern moral life in his novels and short stories. The book offers important new interpretations of many novels as well as several short stories. It is written by one of the pre-eminent interpreters of the modern European philosophical tradition and will interest philosophers as well as literary critics. Moreover, the style is completely non-technical, with no reliance on contemporary literary or philosophical theory, and will therefore be accessible to students and general readers.

Recenzje

'It is a book for anyone who has ever wondered what is involved in leading a life worth living. it is, like James's novels themselves 'finely aware and richly responsible.' Modernism/Modernity

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; 1. Modern morals; 2. 'A kind of morbid modernity?'; 3. 'Crudities of mutual resistance'; 4. Beasts, secrets, and ghosts; 5. Isabel Archer's 'beastly pure mind'; 6. The 'strange logic' of Lambert Strether's 'Double consciousness'; 7. '… without your life, what have you got?' Concluding remarks; Texts by James; Bibliography.