Reprint

Ethics and Literary Practice

Edited by
June 2020
248 pages
  • ISBN978-3-03928-504-4 (Hardback)
  • ISBN978-3-03928-505-1 (PDF)

This is a Reprint of the Special Issue Ethics and Literary Practice that was published in

Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Summary

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. 

Format
  • Hardback
License and Copyright
© 2020 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
Ethics; Stanley Cavell; Michael Palmer; poetry; American philosophy; Ralph Waldo Emerson; poetics; language poetry; moral perfectionism; emergence; aesthetics; mimesis; Adorno; Stanley Cavell; ethics; literature; skepticism; tragedy; romanticism; Emersonian perfectionism; Emmanuel Levinas; ethics and literature; analogy; empathy; Israeli literature; Israelis and Palestinians; Emmanuel Levinas; narrative ethics; recognition; responsibility; decoloniality; Kafka; Timm; racism; genocide; German Empire; ethics; reading; postcritical; Afro-Caribbean literature; African-American literature; paracritical; Glissant; Seamus Heaney; Jacques Derrida; Emmanuel Levinas; Seamus Heaney’s Human Rights Lecture; po-ethics; ethics; aesthetics; 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; ethics; philosophy; literature; ethics; attention; representation; responsibility; decoloniality; indigenous writers; gendered violence; Levinas; Weil; pedagogy; metonymy; metaphor; neorealism; contingency; dialectics; Heidegger; Levinas; Proust; time; poetry; literary form; Being; Alterity; ethics; Anthropocene; sonic rhetorics; non-linguistic turn; time; space; ethics; prosody; etymology; Plato; Heidegger; Levinas; Alterity; the Other; orthography; classical Greek; Biblical Hebrew; the reversible vov; n/a; n/a

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