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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Virtues and Passions in Literature
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Section I.- Historical and Contemporary Virtues As Reflected in Chinese Literatre.- Revisiting the Traditional Virtues of the Hero.- Beauty, Taste, and Enlightenment in Hume’s Aesthetic Thought.- Section II.- Virtues of the Heart.- The Willing Subject and the Non-Willing Subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche’s Hyperborean.- Virtue in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead.- Section III.- Inherent and Intentional Inquiries on Virtues.- Striving and Accepting Limits As Competing Meta-Virtues.- Happiness, Division, and Illusions of the Self in Plato’s Symposium.- The Virtue of Responsibility.- Section IV.- Enlightenment, Humanization, and Beauty in The Light of Schiller’s “Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man”.- Beyond Adaptation.- Between the Ironic and the Irenic.- Phenomenological Temporality and Proustian Nostalgia.- Section V.- Art and Awareness.- The Image in the History of Thought.- The Narrative Model.- Political Symbolism in the Saint Antoine Gate, 1585–1672.- Music Theory and Phenomenology of Musical Performance.

Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 319 ● ISBN 9781402064227 ● Dateigröße 3.1 MB ● Herausgeber Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ● Verlag Springer Netherland ● Ort Dordrecht ● Land NL ● Erscheinungsjahr 2007 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 2148395 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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