This volume brings together Martha Nussbaum's published papers, some revised for this collection, on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. It also includes two new essays and a substantial Introduction. The papers, many of them previously not readily available to non-specialist readers, explore such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical questions; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and style; and the role of the emotions in deliberation and self-knowledge. The author investigates and defends a conception of ethical understanding which involves emotional as well as intellectual activity, and which gives a certain type of priority to the perception of particular people and situations rather than to abstract rule.

Winner of the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamondstein prize for the best collection of essays in 1991

About the Author
Martha C. Nussbaum is Professor of Law and Ethics and the University of Chicago Law School.

Reviews
The lucid and penetrating essays in Love's Knowledge demonstrate that Martha Nussbaum is the finest philosophic mind of her generation. * Philosophy and Literature *
one of the most original books published [in 1991], a hugely stimulating read, which returns us with thoughts refreshed to some of our best-loved authors and brings philosophy back to earth in the process * Mark Archer, Observer *


Awards
Winner of Winner of the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamondstein prize for the best collection of essays in 1991.



Book Information
ISBN 9780195074857
Author Martha C. Nussbaum
Format Paperback
Page Count 422
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 675g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 154mm * 28mm