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Ethical Criticism : Reading After Levinas / Robert Eaglestone.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748609550
  • 9781474467957
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Uncertain Topography of Criticism -- 1 Ethics and the End of Criticism? -- 2 The Dialogue between Perception and Rule: Martha Nussbaum -- 3 Reading (:) the Ethics of Deconstructive Criticism -- 4 'Cold Splendor': Levinas's Suspicion of Art -- 5 What is Hecuba to me?': Language beyond Being and the Task of Criticism -- Conclusion: Interpretation Continual Interruption -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: What is the relationship between literary criticism and ethics? Does criticism have an ethical task? How can criticism be ethical after literary theory? Ethical Criticism seeks to answer these questions by examining the historical development of the ethics of criticism and the vigorous contemporary backlash against what is known as 'theory'. The book appraises current arguments about the ethics of criticism and, finding them wanting, turns to the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. Described as 'the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century', Levinas' thought has had a profound influence on a number of significant contemporary thinkers. By paying close attention to his major writings, Robert Eaglestone argues cogently and persuasively for a new understanding of the ethical task of criticism and theory.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Uncertain Topography of Criticism -- 1 Ethics and the End of Criticism? -- 2 The Dialogue between Perception and Rule: Martha Nussbaum -- 3 Reading (:) the Ethics of Deconstructive Criticism -- 4 'Cold Splendor': Levinas's Suspicion of Art -- 5 What is Hecuba to me?': Language beyond Being and the Task of Criticism -- Conclusion: Interpretation Continual Interruption -- Bibliography -- Index

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What is the relationship between literary criticism and ethics? Does criticism have an ethical task? How can criticism be ethical after literary theory? Ethical Criticism seeks to answer these questions by examining the historical development of the ethics of criticism and the vigorous contemporary backlash against what is known as 'theory'. The book appraises current arguments about the ethics of criticism and, finding them wanting, turns to the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. Described as 'the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century', Levinas' thought has had a profound influence on a number of significant contemporary thinkers. By paying close attention to his major writings, Robert Eaglestone argues cogently and persuasively for a new understanding of the ethical task of criticism and theory.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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