Siebers The Ethics of Criticism

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5017-2142-7
Verlag: Cornell University Press
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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 the attitudes fostered by the approaches. Building on analyses of the moral legacies of Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud, Siebers identifies the various fronts on which the concerns of critical theory impinge on those of ethics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Siebers, Tobin

Über Autor(innen)

The late Tobin Siebers (1953–2015) was V. L. Parrington Collegiate Professor, Professor of English Language and Literature, and Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan, where he was cochair of the Initiative on Disability Studies. He was the author of Disability Theory, Disability Aesthetics, Among Men, and The Mirror of Medusa.