Textual Ethos Studies: Or Locating Ethics - Couverture rigide

 
9789042017979: Textual Ethos Studies: Or Locating Ethics
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ISBN 10 : 904201797X ISBN 13 : 9789042017979
Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2005

Synopsis

What is the relationship between texts and ethics? Who decides the ethics of a text, the writer or the reader? What happens to ethics in texts that portray dreams or psychoses? Is violence always inherently unethical? In dealing with others is violence to both them and oneself ever completely avoidable?
Textual Ethos Studies does not attempt to provide definitive answers to these questions so much as to be a springboard to the further discussion of ethics in relation to specific texts. The essays illustrate varying perspectives -- ranging from the philosophical to the psychoanalytical to the linguistic -- that can be used to localize how texts engage or invite an engagement with ethics.
Twenty scholars representing Asia, Europe, Israel, North America, and South Africa highlight the complex relationship between cultural context and ethics, and between the ethical and the unethical. Several essays deal with the study of atypical texts that represent different attitudes toward the violent, the disordered, the traumatized, the psychotic, and the sentimental in order to encourage -- or provoke -- further discussion of the relevance of these types of texts to ethics.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

What is the relationship between texts and ethics? Who decides the ethics of a text, the writer or the reader? What happens to ethics in texts that portray dreams or psychoses? Is violence always inherently unethical? In dealing with others is violence to both them and oneself ever completely avoidable? Textual Ethos Studies does not attempt to provide definitive answers to these questions so much as to be a springboard to the further discussion of ethics in relation to specific texts. The essays illustrate varying perspectives ranging from the philosophical to the psychoanalytical to the linguistic that can be used to localize how texts engage or invite an engagement with ethics. Twenty scholars representing Asia, Europe, Israel, North America, and South Africa highlight the complex relationship between cultural context and ethics, and between the ethical and the unethical. Several essays deal with the study of atypical texts that represent different attitudes toward the violent, the disordered, the traumatized, the psychotic, and the sentimental in order to encourage or provoke further discussion of the relevance of these types of texts to ethics.

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Éditeur
Editions Rodopi B.V.
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
904201797X
ISBN 13 
9789042017979
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
378
Éditeur
Fahraeus Anna, Jonsson AnnKatrin
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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