Trollope’s Post Moralism
Posted on:: December 11th, 2003
I’ve blogged a review of Trollope’s The Warden at Blogcritics.org. Here’s the beginning:
Richard Rorty says that fiction is superceding philosophy as the place of moral discourse, and he’s glad of it because novels raise questions of what to do within a human context, guiding us not by principles but by our lived sympathy. Anthony Trollope’s “The Warden” could be the poster boy for Rorty’s position, for it not only develops its moral ideas within a context of love and strong personality, it even reflects on the inadequacy of principle as a guide to behavior.
It also tells a compelling story with Trollope’s usually wit and an eye for human foibles that stops just short of cynicism.
David, please check your email (the one listed on this site).
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