Jane Austen and the ethics of description
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Jane Austen and the ethics of description
（Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature）
Routledge, 2023
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-172) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description demonstrates that Elizabeth Bennet and her creator are misunderstood, and often unrecognized, geniuses of moral philosophy, but not simply because of their virtue or wit or natural skills in game theory. The engine driving the moral judgement and growth of Austen's protagonists consists of a particular and not well-understood ability to reason by description, a skill which we moderns must recover and remaster in order to negotiate the complexities of contemporary life. The forms of rational description this book derives from Austen will be of great interest not only to literary critics and theorists, but also to philosophers and anyone interested in ethics, the dynamics of power, and practical reasoning.
Written in a clear style, the book is for those who love Austen and for those who want to understand how we should reason about our lives, how we should understand power, social conflict, and our own motives and prejudices. It is a literary analysis, a philosophical argument, and a practical guide to ethical thinking.
目次
Preface
Part I: Jane Austen and the Powers of Description
1 Disciplines of Description
2 Reading Ignorance into Sense
3 Elizabeth Bennet, the Socrates of Descriptive Reason
4 Frank and Impertinent: Paradiastolic Descriptions
5 An Excursus on Richard Rorty and Lady Catherine
6 Fanny's Garden Thoughts
7 Reasoning by Description
8 Coda: "Part Hawk, Part Man"
Part II: The Apprehension of Power and Life
Prologue
9 The Cook and the Count: A Psychological Anthropology of Tyranny
10 Is Power Coercive?
11 A Parable of Action and Event
12 The Afflictions of Life: Montale's Poetic Description of Flux
13 What Is a Life?
14 A Concluding Postscript
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