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The ethics of theory : philosophy, history, literature / Robert Doran.
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Doran, Robert, 1968-
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English
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London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PIc, 2017.
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x, 229 pages ; 25 cm
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B809.3 .D67 2017
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Critical theory
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Ethics
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Robert Doran offers the first broad assessment of the ethical challenges of Critical Theory across the humanities and social sciences, calling into question the sharp dichotomy typically drawn between the theoretical and the ethical, the analytical and the prescriptive. In a series of discrete but interrelated interventions, Doran exposes the ethical underpinnings of theoretical discourses that are often perceived as either oblivious to or highly skeptical of any attempt to define ethics or politics. Doran thus discusses a variety of themes related to the problematic status of ethics or the ethico-political in Theory: the persistence of existentialist ethics in structuralist, poststructuralist, and postcolonial writing; the ethical imperative of the return of the subject (self-creation versus social conformism); the intimate relation between the ethico-political and the aesthetic (including the role of literary history in Erich Auerbach and Edward Said); the political implications of a "philosophy of the present" for Continental thought (including Heidegger's Nazism); the ethical dimension of the debate between history and theory (including Hayden White's idea of the "practical past" and the question of Holocaust representation); the "ethical turn" in Foucault, Derrida, and Rorty; the post-1987 "political turn" in literary and cultural studies (especially as influenced by Said).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Philosophy
Ethics beyond existentialism and structuralism: Sartre's critique of dialectical reason and the debate with Lévi-Strauss
Foucault's "ethics of the self"
Derrida in Heidelberg: the specter of Heidegger's Nazism and the question of ethics
Richard Rorty's "cultural politics": ironist philosophy and the ethics of reading
History
From metahistory to the practical past: Hayden White's existentialist philosophy of history
Hayden White and the ethics of historiography literature
The ethics of conversion: metaphysical desire in Ren, Girard, and Jean-Paul Sartre
The ethics of realism: literary history and the sublime in Erich Auerbach's mimesis
The ethics of philology: Erich Auerbach and the fate of humanism
Edward Said, orientalism, and the political turn in literary and cultural studies.
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ISBN
9781474225922 ((hardback))
1474225926 ((hardback))
9781474225939 ((pbk.))
1474225934 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2016016468
OCLC
946481492
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