Hello and welcome back to Lady Disdain Reads. My name is Beatrice, and today I have a quick video in which I introduce C. S. Lewis and Alasdair Macintyre's fears about the future of literature and literary studies. Enjoy!
My video on ethics, Macintyre and Austen:
• What Would Jane Do? Ja...
References:
Basil Mitchell: Oxford Professor of Philosophy of the Christian Religion
Alasdair Macintyre: After Virtue (1981)
- emotivism as ‘the doctrine that all evaluative judgements and more specifically all moral judgements are nothing but expressions of preference, expressions of attitude or feeling’
- ‘what once was morality has to some large degree disappeared - and this marks a degeneration, a grave cultural loss.’
C. S. Lewis: The Abolition of Man (1943)
- students will ‘be deprived of the means for [achieving discriminating judgements], all judgements of value having in advance been rendered trivial’.
C. S. Lewis: De Descriptione Temporum (1954)
- ‘I have come to regard as the greatest of all divisions in the history of the West that which divides the present day from, say, the age of Jane Austen…somewhere between us and Persuasion, the chasm runs.’
Post-Austen novelists I love:
- Evelyn Waugh
- Kazuo Ishiguro
4 сен 2024