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Virtues and Passions in Literature

Excellence, Courage, Engagements, Wisdom, Fulfilment

  • This book explains how the emergence of Human Condition lifts natural endowment of the individual to the level of excellence
  • This book explains how natural forces and promptings of life transmute through creative Human Condition subliminal passions of the soul into innumerable streaks of spiritual significance
  • This book explains how virtues streaming from individual forces maintain bedrocks of the societal links

Part of the book series: Analecta Husserliana (ANHU, volume 96)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXV
  2. Section I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Revisiting the Traditional Virtues of the Hero

      • Bernard Micallef
      Pages 15-47
  3. Section II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
    2. Virtues of the Heart

      • Evgenia V. Cherkasova
      Pages 69-82
    3. Virtue in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead

      • Rebecca M. Painter
      Pages 93-112
  4. Section III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
    2. Inherent and Intentional Inquiries on Virtues

      • Alira Ashvo-MuÑoz
      Pages 115-122
    3. Striving and Accepting Limits As Competing Meta-Virtues

      • Raymond J. Wilson III
      Pages 123-134
    4. The Virtue of Responsibility

      • Annika Ljung-Baruth
      Pages 159-167
  5. Section IV

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
    2. Beyond Adaptation

      • Lawrence F. Rhu
      Pages 199-209
    3. Between the Ironic and the Irenic

      • John Baldaccino
      Pages 211-224
  6. Section V

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

Editors and Affiliations

  • The World Phenomenology Institute, Hanover, USA

    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Virtues and Passions in Literature

  • Book Subtitle: Excellence, Courage, Engagements, Wisdom, Fulfilment

  • Editors: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

  • Series Title: Analecta Husserliana

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6422-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6421-0Published: 22 November 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7636-6Published: 20 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6422-7Published: 10 November 2007

  • Series ISSN: 0167-7276

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8330

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 319

  • Topics: Language and Literature, Metaphysics, Ethics, Phenomenology, History of Philosophy

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Softcover Book USD 169.00
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