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<p>In this remarkable blend of sophisticated philosophical analysis and close reading of literary texts, Richard Eldridge presents a convincing argument that literature is the most important and richest source of insights in favor of a historicized Kantian moral philosophy. He effectively demonstrates that only through the interpretation of narratives can we test our capacities as persons for acknowledging the moral laws as a formula of value and for acting according to it.</p><p>Eldridge presents an extensive new interpretation of Kantian ethics that is deeply informed by Kant's aesthetics. He defends a revised version of Kantian universalism and a Kantian conception of the <i>content</i> of morality. Eldridge then turns to literature armed not with any <i>a priori</i> theory but with an interpretive stance inspired by Hegel's phenomenology of self-understanding, more or less naturalized, and by Wittgenstein's work on self-understanding as ongoing narrative-interpretive activity, a stance that yields Kantian results about the universal demands our nature places on itself.</p><p>Eldridge goes on to present readings of novels by Conrad and Austen and poetry by Wordsworth and Colerid

Author

Richard Thomas Eldridge

Publisher

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1989.

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226203164

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Anthropology, Philosophy

Rating

3.7 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14