Psyche and Ethos
Moral Life After Psychology
(Sprache: Englisch)
A short thought-provoking book on the relation between psychology and morality in contemporary culture and current literary criticism.
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A short thought-provoking book on the relation between psychology and morality in contemporary culture and current literary criticism.
Klappentext zu „Psyche and Ethos “
We live in a psychological age. Contemporary culture is saturated with psychological concepts and ideas, from anxiety to narcissism to trauma. While it might seem that concern over psychological conditions and challenges is intrinsically oriented toward moral questions about what promotes individual and collective well-being, it is striking that from the advent of Freudian psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth-century up to recent findings in cognitive science, psychology has posed a continuing challenge to traditional concepts of moral deliberation, judgment, and action, all core components of moral philosophy and central to understandings of character and tragedy in literature. Psyche and Ethos: Moral Life After Psychology explores the nature of psychology's consequential effects on our understanding of the moral life. Using a range of examples from literature and literary criticism alongside discussions of psychological literature from psychoanalysis to recent cognitive science and social psychology, this study argues for a renewed look at the persistence of moral orientations toward life and the values of integrity, fidelity, and repair that they privilege. Writings by Shakespeare, Henry James, and George Eliot, and the powerful contributions of British object relations theorists in the post-war period, help to draw out the fundamental ways we experience moral time, the forms of elusive duration that constitute loss, grief, regret, and the desire for amends. Acknowledging the power and necessity of psychological frameworks, Psyche and Ethos aims to restore moral understanding and moral experience to a more central place in our understanding of psychic life and the literary tradition.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Psyche and Ethos “
- Introduction
- 1: Psychology Contra Morality
- 2: In the Middle of Life: The Vicissitudes of Moral Time
- 3: The Tragic and the Ordinary
- 4: A Human Science
Autoren-Porträt von Amanda Anderson
Amanda Anderson is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English and the Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. She is the author of Bleak Liberalism (Chicago, 2016), The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory (Princeton, 2006), The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (Princeton, 2001), and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Cornell, 1993). She is also co-editor of A Companion to George Eliot (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle (Princeton, 2002). Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Amanda Anderson
- 2018, 124 Seiten, Maße: 13,7 x 20,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198755821
- ISBN-13: 9780198755821
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.04.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Psyche and Ethos is a resounding success Jane F. Thrailkill, Victorian Studies
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