The ethics of theory: philosophy, history, literature

Philosophy -- Ethics beyond existentialism and structuralism: Sartre's critique of dialectical reason and the debate with Levi-Strauss -- Foucault's ethics of the self -- Derrida in Heidelberg: the specter of Heidegger's Nazism and the question of ethics -- Richard Rorty's cultur...

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Main Author: Doran, Robert 1968- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: London Oxford New York New Delhi Sydney Bloomsbury Academic, and imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PIc 2017
In:Year: 2017
Reviews:The Ethics of Theory: Philosophy, History, Literature, Robert Doran, Bloomsbury, 2017 (ISBN 978-1-4742-2593-9), x + 230 pp., pb £21.99 (2019) (Martos, Joseph, 1943 -)
Further subjects:B Ethics
B Critical Theory
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Summary:Philosophy -- Ethics beyond existentialism and structuralism: Sartre's critique of dialectical reason and the debate with Levi-Strauss -- Foucault's ethics of the self -- Derrida in Heidelberg: the specter of Heidegger's Nazism and the question of ethics -- Richard Rorty's cultural politics: ironist philosophy and the ethics of reading -- History -- From metahistory to the practical past: Hayden White's existentialist philosophy of history -- Hayden White and the ethics of historiography literature -- The ethics of conversion: metaphysical desire in Ren, Girard, and Jean-Paul Sartre -- The ethics of realism: literary history and the sublime in Erich Auerbach's mimesis -- The ethics of philology: Erich Auerbach and the fate of humanism -- Edward Said, orientalism, and the political turn in literary and cultural studies
Item Description:Includes index
ISBN:1474225926