Ethical Issues in Twentieth Century French Fiction

Killing the Other

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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This book examines ethical problems raised by a number of key twentieth-century theoretical and fictional texts by authors such as Levinas, Sartre, Beauvoir, Yourcenar, Duras and Genet. It argues that even texts which apparently espouse ethical positions based on respect for and responsibility towards others, frequently depict conflict as an insurmountable aspect of human relations. This is reflected at an aesthetic level, as these texts both describe the struggle for supremacy and replicate it in their relation to their readers.

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Utgivningsdatum1999-12-08
Mått140 x 216 x 24 mm
Vikt462 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor228
Upplaga2000
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333733714

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Ethical Criticism Otherness, Altercide Hermeneutic and Ethical Encounters: Gadamar and Levinas Ethics, Fiction, and the Death of the Other: Sartre and Kant Camus, Encounters, Reading Didacticism and the Ethics of Failure: Beauvoir Humanism and its Others: Sartre, Heidegger, Yourcenar Ethical Indifference: Duras Readers, Others: Genet Conclusions: Tarrying with the Negative Bibliography Index