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The ethics of theory : philosophy, history, and literature /

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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doran, Robert, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Philosophy
  • Ethics beyond existentialism and structuralism: Sartre's critique of dialectical reason and the debate with Levi-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.