Psyche and Ethos: Moral Life After Psychology

ISBN-13: 9780198755821 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 128 str.

Amanda Anderson

Opis

A short thought-provoking book on the relation between psychology and morality in contemporary culture and current literary criticism.

Recenzje

Anderson's argumentative strategy is promising and in broad outline compatible with some other recent defences against the challenge to morality (e.g. Sauer 2017). The way she puts literary sources to work in her argument is novel, refreshing, and illustrative; it shows how discussing the challenge to morality can benefit from novel, interdisciplinary perspectives on morality itself. Of course, many other aspects of the book deserve further attention, most pertinently the parts where she connects the discussion of the challenge to morality with an analysis of literary studies as a field.

O autorze

Amanda Anderson is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English and the Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. She is the author of Bleak Liberalism (Chicago, 2016), The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory (Princeton, 2006), The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (Princeton, 2001), and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Cornell, 1993). She is also co-editor of A Companion to George Eliot (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle (Princeton, 2002).