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Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Beyond of Language

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn to art when writing about ethics.This book explores the relationship between literature and ethics, showing how literature and art work to open up a part of ethics that resists traditional philosophy. Focusing on three American Romantic texts-Wieland, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and The Marble Faun-Robert Hughes demonstrates how each dramatizes the ethical, psychological, and existential imperative to put the experience of our own traumatic limits (death, mortality, and being) into poetic language. To develop the theoretical stakes of these literary readings, Hughes also draws on four twentieth-century continental thinkers-Jacques Lacan, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and Alain Badiou-each of whom, in his own way, proposed aesthetics or art as an approach to this dimension of ethics. The book also points to an overlooked common lineage, descending from German Romanticism, between American Romanticism and contemporary post-Romantic continental thought: a shared supposition about the limits of reason as a mode of presenting the essence of art and ethics, and a shared faith in the promise of literature to speak to, or open up, this subjective space of foundational ethics

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Utgivningsdatum2011-07-02
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt327 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Antal sidor243
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438431949

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionOpening Questions: Ethics, Literature, and the Beyond of LanguageIn Lieu of a Historical Introduction1. Sleepy Hollow: Fearful Pleasures and the Nightmare of History Rhythmic Beauty and Dreamy Charm: Memory, History, and the Pleasurable Tale Sleepy Hollow and the Nightmare of History Fearful Pleasures: From Trauma to the Uncanny Postscript: The Moral of the Story and What It Goes to Prove 2. Lacan and the Beyond of Language: From Art to Ethics The Work of Art, the Emptiness of the Signifier, the Representation of the ThingThe Head of Beatrice: The Mystery of the Beautiful and the Limit of DeathEthics: From the Vicissitudes of Being to the Passion of the Signifier 3. Brown’s Wieland and the Ethical Circumscription of DeathLiterary Morality and the Romance of Family Murder The Presence of the Divine Word and the Movement of the Signifier The Unforsaken Image Writing out of Death 4. Heideggerian Ethics: The Voice of Art and the Call to BeingLanguage, Poetry, and the Unconcealment of BeingHeidegger’s Van Gogh: The Shoes That Stared, the Painting that Spoke The Call of Language and the Obligation to Bear Witness to One’s Existence Not at Home: Heidegger and the Ethical Uncanny 5. Levinas: Art and the Transcendence of Solitude Art and the Grammar of Being Aesthetics, Vulnerability, and Proximity to the Other Saying the Word and Seeking the Other in the Poem Irresistible: The Event of Art and the Call for an Ethical Criticism 6. Endings: Ethics, Enigma, and Address in The Marble Faun Hawthorne’s Final Romance Time, the Eternal City, and the Disadvantage of the History of Life The End of the Romance, the Death of the Reader, and the Impossible Address7. Riven: Badiou’s Ethical Subject and the Event of Art as Trauma The Event of Art: The Hole of Truth and the Punctured Subject A Thing of Nothing: Ethics and the Phantom Excess Badiou on Levinas, Love, and the Poetic Naming of Ethics Epilogue: Word after Word Notes Works Cited Index