| Series |
New directions in aesthetics ; 8
New directions in aesthetics ; 8. ^A538232
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| Contents |
How literature can be a thought experiment : alternatives to and elaborations of original accounts -- Literary form and philosophical content -- Kantian and Aristotelian accounts of Austen -- Hume and Austen on pleasure, sentiment and virtue -- Hume and Austen on sympathy -- Hume's general point of view and the novels of Jane Austen -- The useful and the good in Hume and Austen -- Aesthetics and Humean aesthetic norms in the novels of Jane Austen -- Hume and Austen on good people and good reasoning -- Lovers, friends and other endearing appelations : marriage in Hume and Austen -- Hume and Austen on pride -- Hume and Austen on jealousy, envy, malice and the principle of comparison -- Indolence and industry in Hume and Austen -- What Hume's philosophy contributes to our understanding of Austen's fiction : what Austen's fiction contributes to our understanding of Hume's philosophy. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-228) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008052918 |
| ISBN | 9781405193481 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1405193484 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
