Renegotiating ethics in literature, philosophy, and theory /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998. |
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| Description: | viii, 294 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Literature, culture, theory |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3661894 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the turn to ethics in the 1990s David Parker
- Part I. Ethics, Literature and Philosophy
- 1. Deepening the self: the language of ethics and the language of literature Simon Haines
- 2. Martha Nussbaum and the need for novels Cora Diamond
- 3. The concept of dread: sympathy and ethics in Daniel Deronda Lisabeth During
- 4. Against tidiness: literature and/versus moral philosophy: a response to Cora Diamond, Martha Nussbaum and Iris Murdoch Jane Adamson
- Part II. Ethics and Agency
- 5. What differences can contemporary poetry make in our moral thinking? Charles Altieri
- 6. Moral luck in Paris: A Moveable Feast and the ethics of autobiography Richard Freadman
- 7. The unseemly profession: privacy, inviolate personality, and the ethics of life writing Paul John Eakin
- 8. The patient writes back: bioethics and the pathography John Wiltshire
- Part III. Politics and Ethics:
- 9. Literature, power and the recovery of philosophical ethics C. A. J. Coady and Seamus Miller
- 10. The literary imagination in public life Martha C. Nussbaum
- 11. Ethics in many different voices Annette C. Baier;
- 12. Common understanding and individual voices Raimond Gaita