Morality and the Literary Imagination: Volume 36, Religion and Public Life (Paperback)

1: A New Age of Reason; 2: The Great Yearning: Spiritual Mysticism and Aesthetic Morality?Vedanta, the Perennial Philosophy, Schopenhauer, and Iris Murdoch; 3: The Not So Black and White World of Brothers: Morality and Filial Piety in the Works of Lu Xun and Lao She; 4: On the Fundamentalist Imagination: Toward the Poetics of Truth in Modernism; 5: The Form of Emptiness: Aesthetic Ambivalence and Moral Obligation in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage; 6: George Orwell on the Moral Obligations of Intellectuals; 7: “Politics has Become Too Serious a Matter to be Left to the Politicians”: T.S. Eliot and George Orwell; 8: Wyndham Lewis: A Portrait of the Artist as Ideologue; 9: The Moral Value of Gothic Sublimity; 10: Aldous Huxley: Anglo-American Skeptic-Become-Mystic in Search of the Moral Ground?The Fictional Path; 11: Earthen, Brazen, and Golden: A Moral Taxonomy of Literature