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About the Author
Ashraf H. A. Rushdy is the Benjamin Waite Professor of the English Language at Wesleyan University. He is the author of After Injury: A Historical Anatomy of Forgiveness, Resentment, and Apology (OUP 2018) and Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form (OUP 1999).
Reviews
The volume benefits not only from the author's insights but from perceptive inquiry into the work of scholars who have thought long and hard about the complex issues surrounding gratitude. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * L. J. Alderink, CHOICE *
Ashraf Rushdy's Philosophies of Gratitude is a wonderful book with an extraordinary combination of historical erudition, literary and exegetical mastery, and philosophical insight. There really is nothing else like it on the subject. * Stephen Darwall, Yale University *
Ashraf Rushdy has produced an elegantly written, all-sided examination of gratitude, surveying the history of philosophical interpretations and exhibiting the multiple dimensions of gratitude as a sentiment, action, and disposition or form of being. This is simply the best book I have read on gratitude, and why it remains crucial to our lives today. * David Konstan, New York University *
Rushdy's wide-ranging study explores both historical and contemporary philosophical understandings of gratitude. Rushdy highlights tensions in our thinking of gratitude as sentiment, as a practice, and as a way of a being, and he offers a subtle philosophical model to encompass the best of each. His Philosophies of Gratitude is highly recommended as a richly informative and engagingly written investigation of a topic that has long been understudied in moral philosophy. * Thomas E. Hill, Jr., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill *
In this beautiful, humane, and learned book, Ashraf Rushdy distinguishes gratitude understood as a burden-dispelling transaction of 'economic' justice from gratitude as a sentiment that binds us to one another by ties of affection and recognition of mutual dependence. * Robert C. Roberts, Baylor University *
Book Information
ISBN 9780197526866
Author Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
Format Hardback
Page Count 324
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 635g
Dimensions(mm) 152mm * 236mm * 25mm