Fictional Worlds and the Moral Imagination

Part I: On Knowledge as Virtue.- 1. Plato's Ion as an Ethical Performance; Toby Svobada.- 2. Foolhardly Yet Courageous: Is There Such a Thing as Quixotic Virtue?; Vicky Roupa.- 3. Knowing What Matters: The Epistemological and Ethical Challenge of Marilynne Robinson's Lila; Elisabet Dellming.- Part II: On Our Relations to Each Other.- 4."But in a dream of Friendship": Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, The Gift, and the Moral Economy of Friendship; John Mischo.- 5. Kant and Frankenstein: On Purity, Contingency, and "Patchwork" Morality; Paul Firenze.- 6. Plights of Mind and Circumstance: Stanley Cavell and David Foster Wallace on Scepticism; Paul Jenner.-  Part III: Virtue and Vice in a Modern World.- 7. "The Devil's Territories": Nature, the Sublime, and Witchcraft in the Puritan Imagination and Robert Egger's The Witch; Miranda Corcoram and Adrea Di Carlo.- 8.The Ethics of Betrayal: Seduction and Initiation in Dangerous Liasons; Peter Paik.- 9. De Sade's Psychopath as Prototypical Man of Enlightenment; Manuel Carabantes.- Part IV: Ethical Presuppositions, Reconsidered.- 10. "A kind of purity: Inanimacy, Disability, and Posthumanist Prefiguration in John Williams' Stoner; Jan Grue.- 11. The Curious Case of Normative Incomparability: Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello, and the Limits of Comparisons; Harmut von Sass.- 12. Improvisation within the Range of Implication: Cora Diamond, Henry James, and the Space of Moral Reflection; Garry L. Hagberg.