Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and TheoryJane Adamson, Richard Freadman, David Parker Cambridge University Press, 10.12.1998 г. - 294 страници Is it possible for postmodernism to offer viable, coherent accounts of ethics? Or are our social and intellectual worlds too fragmented for any broad consensus about the moral life? These issues have emerged as some of the most contentious in literary and philosophical studies. In Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory a distinguished international gathering of philosophers and literary scholars address the reconceptualisations involved in this 'turn towards ethics'. An important feature of this has been a renewed interest in the literary text as a focus for the exploration of ethical issues. Exponents of this trend include Charles Taylor, Bernard Williams, Iris Murdoch, Cora Diamond, Richard Rorty and Martha Nussbaum, the latter a contributor and a key figure in this volume. This book assesses the significance of this development for ethical and literary theory and attempts to articulate an alternative postmodern account of ethics which does not rely on earlier appeals to universal truths. |
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... fact that there has been engaged , urgent , practice- oriented literary theory in the past twenty years . Most of it has been political , concerned with issues of race , gender , class , and sexuality . But what Nussbaum calls ' the ...
... fact that there has been engaged , urgent , practice- oriented literary theory in the past twenty years . Most of it has been political , concerned with issues of race , gender , class , and sexuality . But what Nussbaum calls ' the ...
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... fact the very term , ' non - judgmental ' , surely owes its modern connotation to a tradi- tion of spiritual and moral discrimination mediated to us , among other ways , by our literature : by Measure for Measure or The Scarlet Letter ...
... fact the very term , ' non - judgmental ' , surely owes its modern connotation to a tradi- tion of spiritual and moral discrimination mediated to us , among other ways , by our literature : by Measure for Measure or The Scarlet Letter ...
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... fact that the ' speaking agent ' is enmeshed in larger forms of order ( including the linguistic ) , ' which he can never fully oversee , and can only marginally and punctually 9 Introduction : the turn to ethics in the 1990s.
... fact that the ' speaking agent ' is enmeshed in larger forms of order ( including the linguistic ) , ' which he can never fully oversee , and can only marginally and punctually 9 Introduction : the turn to ethics in the 1990s.
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... fact a proposal to change the subject . When he talks here of the demand to start outside of the ' mean- ings things have for us ' , Taylor's principal target is that naturalis- tic reduction of ethics which demands that all ...
... fact a proposal to change the subject . When he talks here of the demand to start outside of the ' mean- ings things have for us ' , Taylor's principal target is that naturalis- tic reduction of ethics which demands that all ...
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... fact what lies behind Taylor's ' we ' and ' us ' is an account of moral ontology ( a better account than Rorty's ) rooted in history and tradition rather than any meta - ethical theory . For Taylor , meta - ethical theory promises to ...
... fact what lies behind Taylor's ' we ' and ' us ' is an account of moral ontology ( a better account than Rorty's ) rooted in history and tradition rather than any meta - ethical theory . For Taylor , meta - ethical theory promises to ...
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Deepening the self The language of ethics and the language of literature | 21 |
Martha Nussbaum and the need for novels | 39 |
The concept of dread Sympathy and ethics in Daniel Deronda | 65 |
Against tidiness Literature andversus moral philosophy | 84 |
What differences can contemporary poetry make in our moral thinking? | 113 |
Moral luck in Paris A Moveable Feast and the ethics of autobiography | 134 |
The unseemly profession Privacy inviolate personality and the ethics of life writing | 161 |
The patient writes back Bioethics and the illness narrative | 181 |
Literature power and the recovery of philosophical ethics | 201 |
The literary imagination in public life | 222 |
Ethics in many different voices | 247 |
Common understanding and individual voices | 269 |
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