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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a series of essays by Sabina Lovibond on moral philosophy, drawing on ideas from Platonic-Aristotelian ethics, the later Wittgenstein, and Iris Murdoch. A common theme is the lived experience of the socially situated subject, and Lovibond considers the role of imaginative literature (especially the novel) in ethical formation.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Wittgenstein and Moral Realism: The Debate Continues 2: Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, and the 'Apocalyptic View' 3: 'The Sickness of a Time': Social Pathology and Therapeutic Philosophy 4: Second Nature, Habitus, and the Ethical: Remarks on Wittgenstein and Bourdieu 5: Practical Reason and Character-Formation 6: Between Tradition and Criticism: The 'Uncodifiability' of the Normative 7: The Unquiet Life: Salience and Moral Responsibility 8: The Varieties of Attention 9: The Elusiveness of the Ethical: From Murdoch to Diamond 10: Post-Existentialist Moments: Murdoch and Highsmith 11: Iris Murdoch and the Quality of Consciousness 12: Vulnerable and Invulnerable: Two Faces of Dialectical Reasoning 13: Judith Butler on Political Agency 14: Philosophy, Literature, Politics: The Cases of Rorty and Collingwood Acknowledgements Index
