Critical Ethics Text, Theory and Responsibility [Paperback]

The current resurgence of ethics in the beleaguered humanities reflects an increasing anxiety about the value and utility of critical/philosophical debate in the wake of poststructuralism. This book addresses this 'return to ethics' in relation to a wide variety of theories and texts. It covers substantial areas of ethical debate, particularly in relation to queer politics, biography, history, postmodernism, atrocity literature, utilitarianism, pedagogy and the philosophy of science. Theorists discussed in the volume include Rorty, Heidegger, Levinas, Mill, Lyotard, Leavis, Kuhn, Davidson, Nussbaum and Freud.Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Ethics and Intellectuals; D. Rainsford and T. Woods PART I: THE POLITICS OF ETHICS What Price Collaboration? The Case of F.R.Leavis; M. Bell Imagining the Centre; G. Harpham PART II: ETHICS AND HISTORY Ethics, Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Science; C. Norris Flaws: James, Nussbaum, Miller, Levinas; R. Eaglestone The Original Traumatise: Levinas and Psychoanalysis; S. Critchley Spectres of History: Ethics and Postmodern Fictions of Temporality; T. Woods PART III: THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY The Ethics of Biography and Autobiography; L. Lockridge The Ethics of Queen Theory; C. Lamos Ethics, Value, and the Politics of Recognition; D. Parker Moral Synonymy: John Stuart Mill and the Ethics of Style; D. Burnstone PART IV: ETHICS AND THE STATE OF THE HUMANITIES The Benefit of the Doubt: The Ethics of Reading; L. West Care of the Self or Care of the Other? Towards a Poststructuralist Ethics of Pedagogy; M. Toye The Ethics of the Voice; S. Connor PART V: BOSNIA AND THE GULAG: LITERATURE AS WITNESS Testimony as Art: Varlam Shalamov's 'Condensed Milk'; L. Toker Cosmopolitanism as Resistance: Fragmented Identities, Women's Testimonial and the War in Yugoslavia; A. Cubili???elect Bibliography IndexMICHAEL BELL Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of WarwickDAN BURNSTONls'