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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... least , ethical criticism has continued on among us alive and well . Frederic Jameson , one of the most vehement critics of ethical interests in literature , said fifteen years ago that when most teachers or students of literature ask ...
... least , ethical criticism has continued on among us alive and well . Frederic Jameson , one of the most vehement critics of ethical interests in literature , said fifteen years ago that when most teachers or students of literature ask ...
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... least a significant turn away from it , in Anglo - American literary theory and criticism in the seventies and eighties ? One answer is surely not : the period has been dominated by forms of political and post - structuralist criticism ...
... least a significant turn away from it , in Anglo - American literary theory and criticism in the seventies and eighties ? One answer is surely not : the period has been dominated by forms of political and post - structuralist criticism ...
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... least ambivalent towards the whole sphere of the ethical . For example , Terry Eagleton's influential book , Literary Theory : An Introduction , veers between a somewhat reductive view of ethics and a fuller and more adequate one . On ...
... least ambivalent towards the whole sphere of the ethical . For example , Terry Eagleton's influential book , Literary Theory : An Introduction , veers between a somewhat reductive view of ethics and a fuller and more adequate one . On ...
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... least compromising form by Frederic Jameson . In his work , Marxism becomes a master - narrative in terms of which ethics must be constantly deconstructed . The essential thrust of Jameson's case against ethics is that it legitimates by ...
... least compromising form by Frederic Jameson . In his work , Marxism becomes a master - narrative in terms of which ethics must be constantly deconstructed . The essential thrust of Jameson's case against ethics is that it legitimates by ...
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... least two ways . First , it has insisted that literary meaning is finally undecid- able , so the very notion of determinate ' moral questions ' or ' di- lemmas ' is defeated in the end by the instabilities within language itself ...
... least two ways . First , it has insisted that literary meaning is finally undecid- able , so the very notion of determinate ' moral questions ' or ' di- lemmas ' is defeated in the end by the instabilities within language itself ...
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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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