Literature and Moral Feeling: A Cognitive Poetics of Ethics, Narrative, and Empathy

ISBN-13: 9781009169516 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 360 str.

Patrick Colm (University of Connecticut) Hogan

Opis

This original interdisciplinary study argues that understanding how narrative works in literature is crucial to understanding moral thought.

Recenzje

'The morality tale in literature, and the thought experiment in moral philosophy, remind us that ethics and narrative are deeply entwined. In a superb example of consilience, breaching arbitrary disciplinary boundaries, Patrick Colm Hogan provides important new insights into how members of our species make sense of our feelings and obligations to one another.' Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and the author of How the Mind Works and Rationality

Spis treści

Introduction: What (comparative) literature tells us about ethics; 1. Defining ethics; 2. The implied ethics of Julius Caesar; 3. Narrative universals, emotion, and ethics; 4. Ethics and narrative genre: Some illustrative cases; 5. Emotion and empathy; 6. The dynamics of empathic response: Simulation and inference in A Midsummer Night's Dream; 7. Evaluating empathy; 8. The critical empathy of Angels in America; Afterword: The limits of ethics – On free will and blame.