their question is throwaway, their question is a wonderfully literary one. Whenever such a creature wonders where in their world they are, whether or not. For a literary being, language is their whole world. Where in the world is language, and where in language is the world? Where, in other words, in another’s words, ‘is the place where language works?’1 Without doubt, the whereabouts of literary beings are never simply geographical. Rorty (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980) Ronald de Sousa, The Rationality of Emotion (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987). Jerome Neu, 'Jealous Thoughts,' in Explaining Emotions, ed. Gwynne Dyer, War (New York: Time-Life Books, 1987).ġ7. Mary Midgley, 'Brutality and Sentimentality,' p. Boruah, Fiction and Emotion (Oxford: Clarendon, 1988) in Review of Metaphysics 43 (1990): 620-21.ġ5. 'Vicarious Feelings,' unpublished manuscript, and in my review of B. Karsten Harries, The Meaning of Modern Art (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1968), p.

Milan Kundera, 'Lecture in Jerusalem,' reprinted in the Mishkenot Sha'ananim Newsletter, no. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (New York: Harper and Row, 1984), p. Solomon, 'The Virtue of Love,' Midwest Studies in Philosophy 8 (1989), and A Passion for Justice (New York: Addison Wesley, 1990).ġ0. 123, though for the most part the critics consist of 'giant intellects struggling manfully against a flood of sentimental rubbish' (p.

Jane Tompkins, Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction 1790-1860 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).Ĩ. Paton (New York: Harper and Row, 1964), p. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, trans. Mary Midgley, 'Brutality and Sentimentality,' Philosophy 54 (1979).ĥ. Michael Tanner, 'Sentimentality,' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 77 (1976): 128.Ĥ. Oscar Wilde, Letters, quoted in Tanner, below.ģ. Mark Jefferson, 'What's Wrong with Sentimentality?,' Mind 92 (1983): 519, 527.Ģ. Parts of this essay have been adapted from my forthcoming book, A Passion for Justice (Addison-Wesley, 1990).ġ.

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