The ethics of criticism
Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and th...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
1988
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| In: | Year: 1988 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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| Further subjects: | B
Criticism
Moral and ethical aspects
B Literature Criticism B Business Ethics / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS B Littérature et morale B Morale littéraire B Criticism B Criticism ; Moral and ethical aspects B Literary ethics B Critique - Aspect moral B Literature and morals |
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| Summary: | Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and the attitudes fostered by the approaches. Building on analyses of the moral legacies of Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud, Siebers identifies the various fronts on which the concerns of critical theory impinge on those of ethics The character of criticism : introduction --Ethical criticism : from Plato to pluralism --The ethics of autonomy : biography and the new criticism --Ethics in the age of Rousseau : from Lévi-Strauss to Derrida --Paul de Man and the triumph of falling --Resentment and the genealogy of morals : from Nietzsche to Girard --The ethical unconscious : from Freud to Lacan --The ethics of sexual difference --The ethics of nuclear criticism : conclusion. |
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| Item Description: | Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 246 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8014-2128-0 1-5017-2141-0 0-8014-2128-4 978-1-5017-2141-0 |
