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Record Nr.

UNINA9910272352503321

Autore

Siebers Tobin

Titolo

The Ethics of Criticism / Tobin Siebers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2018

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 1988

©1988

ISBN

9781501728112

1501728113

9780801421280

0801421284

9781501721410

1501721410

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 pages)

Disciplina

174/.98

Soggetti

Literary ethics

Criticism - Moral and ethical aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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,



Siebers identifies the various fronts on which the concerns of critical theory impinge on those of ethics.