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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Siebers, Tobin (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2018
1988.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Character of Criticism: Introduction
  • 2. Ethical Criticism: From Plato to Pluralism
  • 3. The Ethics of Autonomy: Biography and the New Criticism
  • 4. Ethics in the Age of Rousseau: From Levi-Strauss to Derrida
  • 5. Paul de Man and the Triumph of Falling
  • 6. Resentment and the Genealogy of Morals: From Nietzsche to Girard
  • 7. The Ethical Unconscious: From Freud to Lacan
  • 8. The Ethics of Sexual Difference
  • 9. The Ethics of Nuclear Criticism: Conclusion
  • Index