Introduction : form and content, philosophy and literature -- The discernment of perception : an Aristotelian conception of private and public rationality -- Plato on commensurability and desire -- Flawed crystals : James's The golden bowl and literature as moral philosophy -- "Finely aware and richly responsible" : literature and the moral imagination -- Sophistry about conventions -- Reading for life -- Fictions of the soul -- Love's knowledge -- Narrative emotions : Beckett's genealogy of love -- Love and the individual : romantic rightness and Platonic aspiration -- Steerforth's arm : love and the moral point of view -- Transcending humanity
