Ethics and Literary Practice

Newton, Adam Zachary

Ethics and Literary Practice - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020 - 1 electronic resource (248 p.)

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This volume draws together a diverse array of scholars from across the humanities to formulate and address the question of “ethics and literary practice” for a new decade. In taking up a conjunction whose terms remain productively open to question, fifteen essays survey a range of approaches and topics including genre and disciplinary rhetoric, emergence theory and literary signification, the ethics of alterity, of attention, and of aesthetics, the decolonial and the paracritical, neorealism and contingency, analogy and affect, scripture and national literature. From Seamus Heaney to Hannah Arendt, Teresa Brennan to Stanley Cavell, Ronit Matalon to Édouard Glissant, Uwe Timm to Katherena Vermette, Notes for Echo Lake to the Gospel of St. Matthew, these contributions demonstrate how broadly and fruitfully ramifying its organizing inquiry can be. Bringing such multifarious perspectives to the topic feels only more urgent as language, meaning, and expression enter the crucible of a “post-truth” era.


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Philosophy

Ethics Stanley Cavell Michael Palmer poetry American philosophy Ralph Waldo Emerson poetics language poetry moral perfectionism emergence aesthetics mimesis Adorno ethics literature skepticism tragedy romanticism Emersonian perfectionism Emmanuel Levinas ethics and literature analogy empathy Israeli literature Israelis and Palestinians narrative ethics recognition responsibility decoloniality Kafka Timm racism genocide German Empire reading postcritical Afro-Caribbean literature African-American literature paracritical Glissant Seamus Heaney Jacques Derrida Seamus Heaney’s Human Rights Lecture po-ethics the other politics redress the individual Shakespeare Dante Alighieri Simon Critchley Czeslaw Miłosz Primo Levi alterity compassion enlarged thinking human rights judgment refugees sensus communis Teresa Brennan Hélène Cixous affect porosity vulnerability entre deux philosophy attention representation indigenous writers gendered violence Levinas Weil pedagogy metonymy metaphor neorealism contingency dialectics Heidegger Proust time literary form Being Alterity Anthropocene sonic rhetorics non-linguistic turn space prosody etymology Plato the Other orthography classical Greek Biblical Hebrew the reversible vov n/a