Henry James and Modern Moral Life
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- Author: Robert B. Pippin, University of Chicago
- Date Published: July 2001
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521655477
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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.
Read more- Serious philosophical discussion of Henry James - will appeal to both students of novel, American literature, and philosophy
- Strong endorsement from David Bromwich will help promote the book to literary scholars
- Author is well-known philosopher who has published two books with Cambridge - Hegel's Idealism and Idealism as Modernism
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"Throughout, his observations bring to light problems, ambiguities, and arguments not always treated in discussions of these works." Choice
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- Date Published: July 2001
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521655477
- length: 206 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.298kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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
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