Faulkner's Ethics: An Intense Struggle - Couverture rigide

Wainwright, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3030688712 ISBN 13 : 9783030688714

Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021

Synopsis

This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of ethics in the canon of William Faulkner. As the fundamental framework for its analysis of Faulkner's fiction, this study draws on The Methods of Ethics, the magnum opus of the utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick. While Faulkner's Ethics does not claim that Faulkner read Sidgwick's work, this book traces Faulkner's moral sensitivity. It argues that Faulkner's language is a moral medium that captures the ways in which people negotiate the ethical demands that life places on them. Tracing the contours of this evolving medium across six of the author's major novels, it explores the basic precepts set out in The Methods of Ethics with the application of more recent contributions to moral philosophy, especially those of Jacques Derrida and Derek Parfit.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Wainwright is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030688712
• ISBN 13: 9783030688714
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 329
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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