<P>This <EM>Routledge Revival</EM> reissues Oliver Letwin's philosophical treatise: <EM>Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self</EM>, first published in 1987, which concerns the applicability of the artistic classifications of romanticism and classicism to philosophical doctrine. </P>
<P>Dr Letwin examines three particular theses associated with philosophical romanticism: that there is within us a high self and a low self; that there is a moral self in inevitable conflict with an amoral self; and that there is a rational self disjoined from and in tension with a passionate self. </P>
<P>He argues that these notions of philosophical romanticism are, in fact, radically false, and instead takes the view that man can be a unified being of the sort described by philosophical classicists. But man has to work to achieve this status. The intrinsic unity of the human personality is not a guarantee of a coherent life, but a challenge to be met.</P>