03492nam a22005295i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001400169072002300183072001300206100008200219245012600301250001800427264007900445300004200524336002600566337002600592338003600618347002400654490006500678505028800743520133101031650001302362650002502375650003802400650002602438650002802464650001202492650002402504650002802528650003402556650003102590650002102621650004102642710003402683773002602717776003602743776003602779776003602815830006502851856004602916978-3-031-40216-6DE-He21320251030110826.0cr nn 008mamaa231027s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830314021667 a10.1007/978-3-031-40216-62doi 4aPN3311-3503 7aF2bicssc 7aFIC0000002bisacsh 7aF2thema1 aWainwright, Michael.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aKantian Dignity and Trolley Problems in the Literature of Richard Wrighth[electronic resource] /cby Michael Wainwright.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXI, 228 p. 4 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,x2634-58030 aChapter 1 Introduction: Contesting Equilibria: Nussbaum versus Rawls  -- Chapter 2 Kantian Dignity  -- Chapter 3 Philosophical Literature  -- Chapter 4 Trolley Problems  -- Chapter 5 Lifeboats  -- Chapter 6 Richard Wright’s Travails of Mann  -- Chapter 7 Conclusion: Be Reasonable.  aThis book examines the literature of African-American author Richard Wright and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, arguing that Wright was not only the foremost proponent of minoritarian protest literature, but also a groundbreaking minoritarian exponent of philosophical literature. In presenting this argument, the volume defends trolley problems from the criticism that some philosophers level against them by promoting their use as an interpretive tool for literary scholars. Starting with Martha C. Nussbaum’s interventions in literary theory concerning Henry James and perceptive equilibrium, this book draws on the philosophical thoughts of her contemporaries—Philippa Foot, John Rawls, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and Derek Parfit—to analyze Uncle Tom’s Children, especially “Down by the Riverside,” alongside other works by Wright. This approach emphasizes Wright’s recognition of the importance and integrity of Kant’s concept of dignity. Michael Wainwright is Honorary Research Associate at the University of London, UK. He is the author of numerous books, including most recently Faulkner’s Ethics: An Intense Struggle (2021), The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship (2018), and Game Theory and Postwar American Literature (2016), all published by Palgrave. 0aFiction. 0aCreative nonfiction. 0aLiterature, Modernx20th century. 0aAmericaxLiteratures. 0aLiteraturexPhilosophy. 0aEthics.14aFiction Literature.24aNon-Fiction Literature.24aTwentieth-Century Literature.24aNorth American Literature.24aLiterary Theory.24aMoral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303140215908iPrinted edition:z978303140217308iPrinted edition:z9783031402180 0aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,x2634-580340uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40216-6