Ethics and Literary Practice

• Other Authors: Newton, Adam Zachary (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: 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
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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 approac...