The Ethics of Criticism / Tobin Siebers.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 1988. ©1988. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 1988 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 pages) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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