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A compelling exploration of the convergence of Jane Austen's literary themes and characters with David Hume's views on morality and human nature. Argues that the normative perspectives endorsed in Jane Austen's novels are best characterized in terms of a Humean approach, and that the merits of Hume's account of ethical, aesthetic and epistemic virtue are vividly illustrated by Austen's writing. Illustrates how Hume and Austen complement one another, each providing a lens that allows us to expand and elaborate on the ideas of the other Proposes that literature may serve as a thought experiment, articulating hypothetical cases which allow the reader to test her moral intuitions Contributes to ongoing debates on the philosophy of literature, ethics, and emotion

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: aesthetics

• Full title: Mirrors to One Another - Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume
• Author: E.M. Dadlez
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781405193481
• ISBN: 1405193484
• ID: 04956527
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Weight: 550 g
• Dimensions: 164 × 237 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. April 2009

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