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The Ethics of Reading : Kant, De Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin / J. Hillis Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1987]Copyright date: ©1987Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231910422
  • 9780231881760
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: Reading Doing Reading -- Chapter Two: Reading Telling: Kant -- Chapter Three: Reading Unreadability: de Man -- Chapter Four: Reading Writing: Eliot -- Chapter Five: Self Reading Self: Trollope -- Chapter Six: Re-Reading Re-Vision: James and Benjamin -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Through an examination of the philosophy of Kant and de Man, as well as writings from Henry James, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope on the topic of reading, this study argues that there is a necessary ethical moment in the act of reading that is neither cognitive, nor political, nor social, nor interpersonal, but properly and independently ethical.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231881760

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: Reading Doing Reading -- Chapter Two: Reading Telling: Kant -- Chapter Three: Reading Unreadability: de Man -- Chapter Four: Reading Writing: Eliot -- Chapter Five: Self Reading Self: Trollope -- Chapter Six: Re-Reading Re-Vision: James and Benjamin -- Notes -- Index

Through an examination of the philosophy of Kant and de Man, as well as writings from Henry James, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope on the topic of reading, this study argues that there is a necessary ethical moment in the act of reading that is neither cognitive, nor political, nor social, nor interpersonal, but properly and independently ethical.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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