Cover Image

The Ethics of Criticism.

Show other versions (2)

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Siebers, Tobin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Criticism > Moral and ethical aspects.
Literary ethics.
Critique > Aspect moral.
Morale littéraire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
Criticism > Moral and ethical aspects
Literary ethics
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Ethics of Criticism; 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 Lévi-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.