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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Autor Principal: Siebers, Tobin (Author)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1988.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Levi-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.