Nora Hämäläinen is post-doctoral researcher and temporary lecturer in philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the co-editor of Language, Ethics and Animal Life (2012) and former Editor-in-Chief of the Helsinki-based cultural weekly Ny Tid.

This is a sympathetic but clear-eyed critical evaluation of recent explorations of the relevance of literature to moral philosophy. Its insightful mapping of the territory brings out important differences between the main participants, and suggests one way in which they might be reconciled without sacrificing their emancipatory effect on the future conduct of ethical reflection.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: A Literary Turn in a Neo-Aristotelian FrameworkChapter 2: Literature, Moral Particularism and Anti-TheoryChapter 3: Generality in LiteratureChapter 4: Between Literature and Theory: Nussbaum and MurdochChapter 5: Literature as Critique of Moral TheoryNotesReferences

Nora Hämäläinen is post-doctoral researcher and temporary lecturer in philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the co-editor of Language, Ethics and Animal Life (2012) and former Editor-in-Chief of the Helsinki-based cultural weekly Ny Tid.

This is a sympathetic but clear-eyed critical evaluation of recent explorations of the relevance of literature to moral philosophy. Its insightful mapping of the territory brings out important differences between the main participants, and suggests one way in which they might be reconciled without sacrificing their emancipatory effect on the future conduct of ethical reflection.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: A Literary Turn in a Neo-Aristotelian FrameworkChapter 2: Literature, Moral Particularism and Anti-TheoryChapter 3: Generality in LiteratureChapter 4: Between Literature and Theory: Nussbaum and MurdochChapter 5: Literature as Critique of Moral TheoryNotesReferences

Nora Hämäläinen is post-doctoral researcher and temporary lecturer in philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the co-editor of Language, Ethics and Animal Life (2012) and former Editor-in-Chief of the Helsinki-based cultural weekly Ny Tid.

This is a sympathetic but clear-eyed critical evaluation of recent explorations of the relevance of literature to moral philosophy. Its insightful mapping of the territory brings out important differences between the main participants, and suggests one way in which they might be reconciled without sacrificing their emancipatory effect on the future conduct of ethical reflection.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: A Literary Turn in a Neo-Aristotelian FrameworkChapter 2: Literature, Moral Particularism and Anti-TheoryChapter 3: Generality in LiteratureChapter 4: Between Literature and Theory: Nussbaum and MurdochChapter 5: Literature as Critique of Moral TheoryNotesReferences