Geoffrey Galt Harpham

Shadows of Ethics

Criticism and the Just Society

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Produktbeschreibung

""Shadows of Ethics "is sure to provoke surprise, debate, and constructive indignation in many of its readers."--Dominic Rainsford, University of Aarhus

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822323006
• ISBN-10: 0822323001
• Artikelnr.: 42993608

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Galt Harpham is Professor of English at Tulane University. His books include Getting It Right: Language, Literature, and Ethics; The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism; and One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments ix
1 The Inertial Paradox: Thoughts Anterior to an Ethics of Literature 1
2 Ethics and Literary Study 18
3 Ethics and the Double Standard of Criticism 38
4 Derrida and the Ethics of Criticism 50
5 So ... What Is Englightenment? An Inquisition into Modernity 67
6 Of Rats and Men; or, Reason in Our Time 99
7 Aesthetics and the Fundamentals of Modernity 120
8 History and the Limits of Interpretation 145
9 Late Jameson 16
10 Chomsky and the Rest of Us 180
11 Once Again: Geoffrey Hartman on Culture 203
12 Philosophy Looking for Love 220
13 Conclusion: Imagining the Center 243
References 265
Index 277