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almahu_9947414274202882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 294 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511586200 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Literature, culture, theory ; 31
Content:
Is it possible for postmodernism to offer viable, coherent accounts of ethics? Or are our social and intellectual worlds too fragmented for any broad consensus about the moral life? These issues have emerged as some of the most contentious in literary and philosophical studies. In Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory a distinguished international gathering of philosophers and literary scholars address the reconceptualisations involved in this 'turn towards ethics'. An important feature of this has been a renewed interest in the literary text as a focus for the exploration of ethical issues. Exponents of this trend include Charles Taylor, Bernard Williams, Iris Murdoch, Cora Diamond, Richard Rorty and Martha Nussbaum, the latter a contributor and a key figure in this volume. This book assesses the significance of this development for ethical and literary theory and attempts to articulate an alternative postmodern account of ethics which does not rely on earlier appeals to universal truths.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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ETHICS, LITERATURE, AND PHILOSOPHY -- Deepening the self / Simon Haines -- Martha Nussbaum and the need for novels / Cora Diamond -- The Concept of dread / Lisabeth During -- Against tidiness / Jane Adamson -- ETHICS AND AGENCY -- What differences can contemporary poetry make in our moral thinking? / Charles Altieri -- Moral luck in Paris : a moveable feast and the ethics of autobiography / Richard Freadman -- The Unseemly profession / Paul John Eakin -- The Patient writes back / John Wiltshire.
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POLITICS AND ETHICS -- Literature, power, and the recovery of philosophical ethics / C.A.J. Coady and Seumas Miller -- The Literary imagination in public life / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Ethics in many different voices / Annette C. Baier -- Common understanding and individual voices / Raimond Gaita.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521620796
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511586200
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