Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory
David Parker editor Richard Freadman editor Jane Adamson editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:10th Dec '98
Should be back in stock very soon
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- Paperback£39.99(9780521629386)
An international cast of philosophers and literary theorists addresses questions of ethics and literary criticism.
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.Is it possible for postmodernism to offer viable, coherent accounts of ethics? Or are our social and intellectual worlds too fragmented for any broad consensus about the moral life? These issues have emerged as some of the most contentious in literary and philosophical studies. In Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory a distinguished international gathering of philosophers and literary scholars address the reconceptualisations involved in this 'turn towards ethics'. An important feature of this has been a renewed interest in the literary text as a focus for the exploration of ethical issues. Exponents of this trend include Charles Taylor, Bernard Williams, Iris Murdoch, Cora Diamond, Richard Rorty and Martha Nussbaum, the latter a contributor and a key figure in this volume. This book assesses the significance of this development for ethical and literary theory and attempts to articulate an alternative postmodern account of ethics which does not rely on earlier appeals to universal truths.
ISBN: 9780521620796
Dimensions: 224mm x 143mm x 21mm
Weight: 445g
302 pages