On Literature and Ethics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4376254 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Eskin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 573-594 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-25-4-573 |
| OpenAlex | W2160489125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 34 |
This essay deals with the complex relationship between literature and ethics. More specifically, it inquires into and problematizes the conceptual ways in which such discursive distinctions as that between literature and moral philosophy have been upheld, as well as the assumptions and presuppositions underlying the ascription to literature of an ethically exemplary role. Accepting the methodological and conceptual challenges presented by some of the major philosophical and theoretical positions informing literature's perception as ethically exemplary (from Aristotle to Jakobson and Derrida), this essay suggests a new theoretical framework for thinking about the enmeshment of literature and ethics, drawing especially on the works of Bakhtin and MacIntyre
Ascription · Epistemology · Perception · Presupposition · Sociology · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
Essays on Aristotle's Poetics
The Ethics of Criticism
Nicomachean Ethics
Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
After Virtue
How To Do Things With Words
Tragedy and Self-Sufficiency
The Psychology of Aristotelian Tragedy
Die Geburt der Tragödie. Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen I–IV. Nachgelassene Schriften 1870–1873
The Sovereignty of Good
The Turn to Ethics
Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence
Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie
Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie
Humanist Educational Treatises
Problemes de linguistique generale
Ethics and Dialogue in the Works of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandel'shtam, and Celan
I
Aristotle's Poetics
On Moral Personhood
The Fragility of Goodness
Blindness and Insight
The Logical Status of Fictional Discourse
Can Literature Be Moral Philosophy
The Notion of Literature
The Notion of Literature
The Epistemology of Metaphor
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |