The Ethics of Reading : : Kant, De Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin / / J. Hillis Miller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Miller, J. Hillis,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1987]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 1987
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Editorial Note --; Contents --; Preface --; Chapter One: Reading Doing Reading --; Chapter Two: Reading Telling: Kant --; Chapter Three: Reading Unreadability: de Man --; Chapter Four: Reading Writing: Eliot --; Chapter Five: Self Reading Self: Trollope --; Chapter Six: Re-Reading Re-Vision: James and Benjamin --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231893701; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/mill93438
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: J. Hillis Miller.

Argues that the act of reading is an independently ethical act through an analysis of a number of passages from Kant and de Man in order to sketch out the ground of the topic and then of texts in which George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Henry James read themselves.