Psyche and Ethos

A short thought-provoking book on the relation between psychology and morality in contemporary culture and current literary criticism.

Amanda Anderson is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English and the Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. She is the author of Bleak Liberalism (Chicago, 2016), The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory (Princeton, 2006), The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (Princeton, 2001), and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Cornell, 1993). She is also co-editor of A Companion to George Eliot (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and Disciplinarity at the Fin de SiÃ-cle (Princeton, 2002).

Introduction
1: Psychology Contra Morality
2: In the Middle of Life: The Vicissitudes of Moral Time
3: The Tragic and the Ordinary
4: A Human Science