Metaphor and Moral Experience [Hardcover]

Alison Denham examines the ways in which our engagement with literary art, and metaphorical discourse in particular, informs our moral beliefs. She considers to what extent moral and metaphorical discourses are capable of truth or falsehood, warrant or justification, and how it is that we understand these discourses. This vital new study offers a fresh view of the nature of the moral and the metaphorical, and the relations between art and morality.

Introduction; 1. Art and Morality (Tolstoy and Plato): An Historical Introduction; 2. Values and Valuing; 3. Aspects of Value; 4. Converging on Values: Cognition and Sentiment; 5. The Genesis of Moral Experience; 6. Subjective Conceptions; 7. Identifying Metaphor; 8. Metaphor and Cognition: Two Theories; 9. Metaphor and Judgements of Experience; Bibliography; Index.

Alison Denham is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford