Renegotiating ethics in literature, philosophy, and theory
Is it possible for postmodernism to offer a coherent accounts of ethics in a fragmented social and intellectual world? In this collection, a distinguished international gathering of philosophers and literary scholars address the renewed interest in the literary text as a focus for ethical issues.
Print Book, English, 1998
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1998
viii, 294 pages ; 23 cm
9780521620796, 9780521629386, 0521620791, 0521629381
40754118
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. 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