Critical Ethics: Text, Theory and Responsibility
β Scribed by Dominic Rainsford, Tim Woods (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 287
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
The current resurgence of ethics in the beleaguered humanities reflects an increasing anxiety about the value and utility of critical/philosophical debate in the wake of poststructuralism. This book addresses this 'return to ethics' in relation to a wide variety of theories and texts. It covers substantial areas of ethical debate, particularly in relation to queer politics, biography, history, postmodernism, atrocity literature, utilitarianism, pedagogy and the philosophy of science. Theorists discussed in the volume include Rorty, Heidegger, Levinas, Mill, Lyotard, Leavis, Kuhn, Davidson, Nussbaum and Freud.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Ethics and Intellectuals....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
What Price Collaboration? The Case of F. R. Leavis....Pages 23-36
Imagining the Centre....Pages 37-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Ethics, Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Science....Pages 55-76
Flaws: James, Nussbaum, Miller, Levinas....Pages 77-87
The Original Traumatism: Levinas and Psychoanalysis....Pages 88-104
Spectres of History: Ethics and Postmodern Fictions of Temporality....Pages 105-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
The Ethics of Biography and Autobiography....Pages 125-140
The Ethics of Queer Theory....Pages 141-151
Ethics, Value and the Politics of Recognition....Pages 152-168
Moral Synonymy: John Stuart Mill and the Ethics of Style....Pages 169-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
The Benefit of Doubt: The Ethics of Reading....Pages 187-202
Care of the Self or Care of the Other? Towards a Poststructuralist Ethics of Pedagogy....Pages 203-219
The Ethics of the Voice....Pages 220-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Testimony as Art: Varlam Shalamovβs βCondensed Milkβ....Pages 241-256
Cosmopolitanism as Resistance: Fragmented Identities, Womenβs Testimonial and the War in Yugoslavia....Pages 257-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-284
β¦ Subjects
Literary Theory
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