Patrick Colm Hogan (University of Connecticut)

Literature and Moral Feeling

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In an original study, Patrick Colm Hogan brings the insights of global comparative literature to bear on central issues of ethics. A compelling, narrative-based explanation of humans' otherwise baffling array of ethical attitudes, this book also offers a thought-provoking defence of particular ethical norms, based on a re-understanding of empathy.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781009169493
• ISBN-10: 1009169491
• Artikelnr.: 69231801

Autorenporträt

Patrick Colm Hogan, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the English Department and the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Connecticut, is the author of over twenty scholarly books, including The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and What Literature Teaches Us About Emotion (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

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.