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UNINA9910272352503321 |
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Autore |
Siebers Tobin |
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The Ethics of Criticism / Tobin Siebers |
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Cornell University Press, 2018 |
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Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 1988 |
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©1988 |
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9781501728112 |
1501728113 |
9780801421280 |
0801421284 |
9781501721410 |
1501721410 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (246 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literary ethics |
Criticism - Moral and ethical aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 the attitudes fostered by the approaches. Building on analyses of the moral legacies of Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud, |
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