The ethics of theory: philosophy, history, literature
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- From Theory to ethics -- Theory and the ethico-political turn -- Part 1 Philosophy -- Chapter 1 Ethics beyond existentialism and structuralism: Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason and the debate with Lévi-Straus...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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| Further subjects: | B
Critical Theory
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Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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| Summary: | Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- From Theory to ethics -- Theory and the ethico-political turn -- Part 1 Philosophy -- Chapter 1 Ethics beyond existentialism and structuralism: Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason and the debate with Lévi-Strauss -- Sartre's Critique and Lévi-Strauss's The Elementary Structures -- Lévi-Strauss's The Savage Mind and Sartre's Critique -- Chapter 2 Foucault's "ethics of the self" -- The roads to ethics -- The "Ethics of the Self": The 1981-82 lecture course -- Ethics, politics, and freedom: Specters of Sartre Chapter 3 Derrida in Heidelberg: The specter of Heidegger's Nazism and the question of ethics -- Derrida in Heidelberg -- The philosophical meaning of Heidegger's silence -- Philosophy and Heidegger's Nazism -- The ethics of deconstruction/deconstructive ethics -- Chapter 4 Richard Rorty's "cultural politics": Ironist philosophy and the ethics of reading -- Rorty's "literary culture" -- The ethics of (novel) reading -- Part 2 History -- Chapter 5 From Metahistory to The Practical Past: Hayden White's existentialist philosophy of history -- White and Sartre: Choosing the past White and Heidegger: The practical past -- Existentialism in Metahistory: Tropology and emplotment -- Existential figuralism -- Chapter 6 Hayden White and the ethics of historiography -- The ethics of Metahistory -- Metahistorical ethics and the question of Holocaust representation -- Part 3 Literature -- Chapter 7 The ethics of conversion: Metaphysical desire in René Girard and Jean-Paul Sartre -- Metaphysical desire -- Conversion and authenticity -- Chapter 8 The ethics of realism: Literary history and the sublime in Erich Auerbach's Mimesis Chapter 9 The ethics of philology: Erich Auerbach and the fate of humanism -- Chapter 10 Edward Said, Orientalism, and the "political turn" in literary and cultural studies -- Orientalism, Foucault, and the ethics of theory -- Reconsiderations: The "Afterword" to Orientalism -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Index |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (241 p) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4742-2592-2 |
