Artless Integrity: Moral Imagination, Agency, and Stories

by Susan E. Babbitt

Susan Babbitt dissects a common moral perspective for judging importance which she calls 'moral imagination.' In order to explain ourselves, and to recognize in others, what we often already perceive intuitively to be right or good, we instinctively create a story as a framework. She argues that we intentionally create stories which appear artless or chaotic, something capable of imperfection. This allows the story-maker to eventually deviate if he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742512126
• ISBN13: 9780742512122
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"