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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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"Levine has written an erudite, balanced, insightful book integrating moral philosophy and literary interpretation. His choice of Dante's story of Francesca and Paolo is inspired, enabling him to illustrate his methodological and substantive points with a literary masterpiece. If anyone doubts that literature is ethical or that ethics can benefit from literature, this book will prove him wrong. I see here the beginnings of a new and promising humanistic discipline - narrative ethics." - Colin McGinn, Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami
"The virtues of this book are many: it makes clear and compelling arguments for moderate particularism and historicism in moral reasoning, it deftly shows how Dante himself pursued these goals despite his own penchant for moral universalism, it generously but insistently illustrates the limitations of extremity (in particularism, historicism, and also universalism) through wide-ranging references to periods in art, literature, music, and philosophy, and it finally allies itself with a still burgeoning humanistic revival led by literary critics and moral philosophers. The author s learnedness and intellectual curiosity are on display on every page . . .Philosophers and literary critics have much more to learn from each other right now. In the humanities, we dwell too much on what to read and how to read, but too little on why to read. This book offers a distinctive and compelling answer to that last question." - Daniel S. Malachuk, Western Illinois University and author of Perfection, the State, and Victorian Liberalism
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reforming the Humanities
Book Subtitle: Literature and Ethics from Dante through Modern Times
Authors: Peter Levine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230104693
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62144-2Published: 29 January 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38336-8Published: 29 January 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10469-3Published: 21 December 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 236
Topics: Literary History, Literary Theory, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature