Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, USA. Author of numerous books and articles at the intersection of the philosophy of the arts and the philosophy of language and Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature, his most recent books are Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness and Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood. Previous edited volumes with Palgrave include Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Understanding, Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding, and Narrative and Self-Understanding.

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.