Ann Jefferson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 139888 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ann Jefferson |
| PRENOMES | Ann |
| SOBRENOME | Jefferson |
| ASSINATURA | JEFFERSON A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1870-1361 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Blaming the dead
Should moral blame stop at the grave? We often blame the dead for the bad things they did while alive. But blaming the dead poses a prima facie challenge to accounts which take our blaming practices to aim at communicating moral disapproval to wrongdoers or at improving their moral agency. If these kinds of aims are made definitional for blame, blaming the dead becomes impossible. But even on accounts which say that paradigmatically, blame is a f…
“Terminal Anorexia”, Treatment Refusal and Decision-Making Capacity
Whether anorexic patients should be able to refuse treatment when this refusal potentially has a fatal outcome is a vexed topic. A recent proposal for a new category of “terminal anorexia” suggests criteria when a move to palliative care or even physician-assisted suicide might be justified. The author argues that this proposed diagnosis presents a false sense of certainty of the illness trajectory by conceptualizing anorexia in analogy with phys…
Are mental disorders brain disorders? – A precis
Brain disorders reconsidered – a response to commentaries
In this paper, I respond to commentaries on my book “Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?”. The topics I discuss are: accounts of function and dysfunction, constraints on the relationship between processes at the level of the brain and the mind, externalism in psychiatry, implications for moral responsibility and the question whether my account is a form of conceptual engineering. I defend my account and argue that the key criterion for whether …
Annie Ernaux
This article considers the elaboration of time as part of the formal construction that relates writing and politics in Ernaux's work. Beginning with her claim that ‘Écrire, c’est créer du temps’, particular attention is paid to the role of the future in Ernaux's ‘lived time’, especially the future as anticipated in the past. Her accounts of the past, in both fiction and autobiographical writing, show how unquestioned expectations about the future…
Responsible Agency and the Importance of Moral Audience
Ecological accounts of responsible agency claim that moral feedback is essential to the reasons-responsiveness of agents. In this paper, we discuss McGeer’s scaffolded reasons-responsiveness account in the light of two concerns. The first is that some agents may be less attuned to feedback from their social environment but are nevertheless morally responsible agents – for example, autistic people. The second is that moral audiences can actually w…
Practical Wisdom and the Value of Cognitive Diversity
The challenges facing us today require practical wisdom to allow us to react appropriately. In this paper, we argue that at a group level, we will make better decisions if we respect and take into account the moral judgment of agents with diverse styles of cognition and moral reasoning. We show this by focusing on the example of autism, highlighting different strengths and weaknesses of moral reasoning found in autistic and non-autistic persons r…
Nathalie Sarraute
A leading exponent of the nouveau roman, Nathalia Sarraute (1900–1999) was also one of France's most cosmopolitan literary figures, and her life was bound up with the intellectual and political ferment of twentieth-century Europe. This book is the authoritative biography of this major writer. Sarraute's life spanned a century and a continent. Born in tsarist Russia to Jewish parents, she was soon uprooted and brought to the city that became her l…
Nathalie Sarraute
What does it take to be a brain disorder
In this paper, I address the question whether mental disorders should be understood to be brain disorders and what conditions need to be met for a disorder to be rightly described as a brain disorder. I defend the view that mental disorders are autonomous and that a condition can be a mental disorder without at the same time being a brain disorder. I then show the consequences of this view. The most important of these is that brain differences un…
Why Free Will Is Real
The ability to freely choose between different options for action is part of our understanding of ourselves as agents. Yet, there is ongoing debate as to whether we are in fact free to choose, and about what exactly free will consists in. In his engaging yet rigorous new book, Christian List takes on the challenge of defending free will. List argues that there are three conditions that need to be met in order for agents to have free will: they ne…
Social Dimensions of Moral Responsibility
How and when we blame and punish, praise and reward each other is clearly of immense practical importance. But there has also been increased theoretical interest in how our practices can explain the concept of moral responsibility itself since P.F. Strawson claimed that focusing on the reactive attitudes gives us a notion of moral responsibility that is independent of the stance we take on the metaphysics of free will. Recently, philosophers like…
Anne C. Vila. Suffering Scholars
Instrumentalism about Moral Responsibility Revisited
I defend an instrumentalist account of moral responsibility and adopt Manuel Vargas’ idea that our responsibility practices are justified by their effects. However, whereas Vargas gives an independent account of morally responsible agency, on my account, responsible agency is defined as the susceptibility to developing and maintaining moral agency through being held responsible. I show that the instrumentalism I propose can avoid some problems mo…
Unrealistic optimism – Its nature, causes and effects
What is unrealistic optimism
Here we consider the nature of unrealistic optimism and other related positive illusions. We are interested in whether cognitive states that are unrealistically optimistic are belief states, whether they are false, and whether they are epistemically irrational. We also ask to what extent unrealistically optimistic cognitive states are fixed. Based on the classic and recent empirical literature on unrealistic optimism, we offer some preliminary an…
The Némirovsky Question
The ‘Némirovsky question’ addressed by Susan Suleiman in this study of the Russian-born French novelist, Irène Némirovsky, is principally ‘the Jewish question’ as it played out in the life and works of the writer who died in Auschwitz at the age of 39 in August 1942 after apparently taking no steps to avoid the increasingly inexorable fate of Jews in Occupied France. Némirovsky had enjoyed a successful career as a novelist in the 1930s, but after…
Collected French Translations
Book Review| April 01 2017 Collected French Translations: Prose Collected French Translations: Poetry Ashbery, John, Collected French Translations: Prose, ed. Wasserman, Rosanne and Richie, Eugene. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014), 432 pp.Ashbery, John, Collected French Translations: Poetry, ed. Wasserman, Rosanne and Richie, Eugene. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014), 464 pp. Ann Jefferson Ann Jefferson Search for other wor…
The Other Paris
Book Review| September 01 2017 The Other Paris Sante, Luc, The Other Paris. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015), 320 pp. Ann Jefferson Ann Jefferson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (3): 540–541. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3988358 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ann Jefferson; The Other Paris. Common Knowledge 1 Se…
Pierre Guyotat
The Earth's Sorrow
Other| January 01 2016 THE EARTH'S SORROW: A History of Buffalo Bill Cody Eric Vuillard Eric Vuillard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 154–164. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3323397 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eric Vuillard; THE EARTH'S SORROW: A History of Buffalo Bill Cody. Common Knowledge 1 January 2016; 22 (1): 1…
Moral Preferences
In this brief response to Etzioni's paper we argue that satisfying one's preferences and seeking to live up to one's moral standards are not incompatible ways of living one's life, and that choosing to act morally need not involve self-sacrifice
Les Solidarités Mystérieuses Roving Shadows Les Désarçonneés, Dernier Royaume VII Mourir de Penser, Dernier Royaume IX
Book Review| April 01 2015 Les Solidarités Mystérieuses Roving Shadows Les Désarçonneés, Dernier Royaume VII Mourir de Penser, Dernier Royaume IX Quignard, Pascal, Les Solidarités Mystérieuses. (Paris: Gallimard, 2011), 251 pp.;Roving Shadows, trans. Turner, Chris. (London: Seagull Books, 2011), 240 pp.;Les Désarçonneés, Dernier royaume VII. (Paris: Grasset, 2012), 337 pp.;Mourir de penser, Dernier royaume IX. (Paris: Grasset, 2014), 221 pp. Ann …
Genius in France
Genius in France
Roland Barthes
Instrumentalism about Moral Responsibility Revisited
I defend an instrumentalist account of moral responsibility and adopt Manuel Vargas’ idea that our responsibility practices are justified by their effects. However, whereas Vargas gives an independent account of morally responsible agency, on my account, responsible agency is defined as the susceptibility to developing and maintaining moral agency through being held responsible. I show that the instrumentalism I propose can avoid some problems mo…
Self‐specific Optimism Bias in Belief Updating Is Associated with High Trait Optimism
People learn more from new information when it leads to favorable future outlooks and thus can maintain optimism despite conflicting evidence. In two studies ( N = 20 and 26), we investigated whether this optimism bias in belief updating is self‐specific by modifying a recently introduced learning paradigm. In each trial, participants had to estimate the probability of experiencing a negative future event, were then presented with the population …
What does it take to be a brain disorder
In this paper, I address the question whether mental disorders should be understood to be brain disorders and what conditions need to be met for a disorder to be rightly described as a brain disorder. I defend the view that mental disorders are autonomous and that a condition can be a mental disorder without at the same time being a brain disorder. I then show the consequences of this view. The most important of these is that brain differences un…
Slippery Slope Arguments
Slippery slope arguments are frequently dismissed as fallacious or weak arguments but are nevertheless commonly used in political and bioethical debates. This paper gives an overview of different variants of the argument commonly found in the literature and addresses their argumentative strength and the interrelations between them. The most common variant, the empirical slippery slope argument, predicts that if we do A, at some point the highly u…
La Gente Parda and the Guatemalan Rebellion of 1837
Realism Reconsidered
Narratologie
Theories du symbole
Nouveaux problemes du roman
The Nouveau Roman and the Poetics of Fiction
The Nouveau Roman and the Poetics of Fiction
Writing about Postmodern Writing
Parody//Meta-Fiction
Stendhal and the Uses of Reading
Journal Article STENDHAL AND THE USES OF READING: LE ROUGE ET LE NOIR Get access ANN JEFFERSON ANN JEFFERSON OXFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2, April 1983, Pages 168–183, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXXVII.2.168 Published: 01 April 1983
The Nouveau Roman and the Poetics of Fiction
Roland Barthes
Modern Literary Theory. A Comparative Introduction
Russian formalism, Ann Jefferson modern linguistics and the language of literature, David Robey Anglo-American new criticism, David Robey structuralism and post-structuralism, Ann Jefferson reading and interpretation, Ian Maclean modern psychoanalytic criticism, Elizabeth Wright Marxist literary theories, David Forgacs feminist literary criticism, Toril Moi
The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Literature
Realism Reconsidered
Metafiction
Reading Realism in Stendhal
This book poses the question: what happens when reading enters the realist process? and answers it by way of a critical study of Stendhal's writing. Ann Jefferson argues that a recognition of the role of reading in representation is particularly crucial to an understanding of Stendhal's realism, and her account includes substantial discussions of De l'Amour, Le Rouge et le Noir, the Vie de Henry Brulard and La Chartreuse de Parme. Her study also …
Reading Realism in Stendhal
Regicide and readers
Counterpoint and forked tongues
The Hagiographies of Pierre Michon
The premiss of this article is that the concern with the literary as an issue of ‘radical uncertainty’ has shifted from theory as polemic to the new forms of ‘life-writing’ that have emerged in France over the past three decades. It explores the quasi-biographical modes through which this concern is expressed in the work of Pierre Michon, concentrating in particular on the model of the lives of the saints. Focusing on Rimbaud le fils (1991), vari…
La Gente Parda and the Guatemalan Rebellion of 1837
Genius and its Others
This article proposes a way of opening up the concept of genius to renewed understanding by analysing it in relation to the 'others' that are represented by melancholy, imposture and the reader. Discussions where genius is defined oppositionally are contrasted with those where such others are integral to the account of the phenomenon. The argument is based on a reading of three of the founding texts of the literature on genius, Aristotle's Proble…
Genius in France
Genius in France
A Novel of Female Genius
This chapter considers the links between women and genius in the figure of Mme De Staël's Corinne (from her 1807 of the same name). At the time of its publication women there seemed to be no place for women in genius or for genius in women. At the same time, however, the novel, which was traditionally associated with a female readership, was gaining status as a literary genre. Mme de Staël, as one of the rare women commentators on genius, curious…
The Eighteenth Century
This chapter examines the characteristics of genius as set forth during the eighteenth century, when the modern idea of genius first took root and when the secular values of the Enlightenment took hold of the notion in order to celebrate human achievement, advance intellectual and artistic innovation, and support the emergence of new disciplines and genres. The century is characterized above all by a huge appetite for knowledge, and it is in this…
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