04924nam a22005175i 4500 978-3-031-58433-6 DE-He213 20251030112616.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240706s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031584336 978-3-031-58433-6 10.1007/978-3-031-58433-6 doi BH1-301 HPN bicssc PHI001000 bisacsh QDTN thema Narrative and Ethical Understanding [electronic resource] / edited by Garry L. Hagberg. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIV, 354 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1.Introduction: Layers of Understanding and Long-Form Narrative, Garry L. Hagberg, Part 1. To Focus on Ethical Vision rather than Moral Action -- 2. From Wittgenstein to Homer: Ethics, ‘World-Pictures,’ and Iliadic Time, Carl Humphries -- 3. Murdoch and Gilead: John Ames as a Model of Murdochian Virtue, Cathy Mason -- 4. Patricia Highsmith’s Kierkegaardian Fiction, Don Adams -- Part 2. Self-Narration, Self-Deception, and Self-Critique -- 5. Consciousness, Beckett and the (Un)Aware Being: Krapp’s and Winnie’s Wobbly Mindfulness Under the Lens of Phenomenology, Stefano Rossi -- 6. Self-deception and Self-narration: Linklater’s Tape, Zeynep Talay Turner -- 7. Shame and Self-Abasement: Bernard Williams, Kant, and J.M. Coetzee, Ana Falcato -- Part 3. Layers of Understanding: Responsibility Reconsidered -- 8. Orwellian Responsibility, Peter Brian Barry -- 9. Kant, the Karamazovs, and Hitler’s Pawn, Samuel Kahn -- 10. Storm Jameson’s Phenomenology of Place in The Hidden River, Robert Lance Snyder -- Part 4. Unobvious Forms of Moral Progress -- 11. Just Sex in Heller’s Catch-22?,James A. Baker and Zenon Culverhouse -- 12. Imperfect Fiction and Criticism im Stillstand: A Reading of The Mill on the Floss, Daniele Niedda -- 13. Listening to the Dead: Exploring the Differend in Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad, Catherine MacMillan -- Part 5. Against Oversimplification -- 14. We all have Plague: Human Nature and Decency in Camus’ The Plague, Hayden Kee -- 15. Wallace Stevens’ Poetic Realism: The Only Possible Redemption, David Kleinberg-Levin -- 16. The Godfather III as an Essay in Long-Arc Ethical Understanding, Garry L. Hagberg. There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between ethics and the interpretation of literature, but there remains a need for a book that both introduces and significantly contributes to the field – particularly one that shows how we can think more openly and creatively about the multiform powers of ethical narrative by considering ethically significant literature. This volume offers an analytically acute and culturally rich way of understanding how it is that we can productively think philosophically about the narrative structures that describe our ethical lives and what kind of distinctive conceptual, and in some cases personal, progress we can make by doing so. Given the extremely widespread interest in ethical issues, this volume will strike resonant chords far and wide on arrival, while offering something new in bringing together the study of long-form narrative, the language of moral psychology, and detailed literary case studies. Given the vast expansion of narrative studies in recent years, the time for just such a volume is right. Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College and Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature. He is presently completing three new books: Consciousness Portrayed: Seven Case Studies in Philosophical Literature; The Mind on Screen: Seven Case Studies in Philosophical Film; and Art and Meaning: On Artworks and their Implications. Aesthetics. 64000 Ethics. 58934 Literature Aesthetics. 69280 Aesthetics. 64000 Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. 66410 Literary Aesthetics. 69282 Hagberg, Garry L. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 77129 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031584329 Printed edition: 9783031584343 Printed edition: 9783031584350 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58433-6 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 61397 61397