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Wayne C. Booth argues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature. "What he has succeeded in doing . . . is to ... More

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In Ethics, Theory and the Novel, David Parker brings together recent developments in moral philosophy and literary theory.

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An international cast of philosophers and literary theorists addresses questions of ethics and literary criticism.

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Beginning amidst the tombs of the 'dead' God, and the crematoria at Auschwitz, this book, newly available in paperback, confronts the Nietzschean ... More

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This is a book about the ethics of authorship. Most directly, it explores different conceptualizations of the responsibilities of the author to the ... More

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Divided into four descriptive sections--"Theory and the Ethics of Literary Text," "Confronting the Difficult: The Ethics of Race and Power," "Making ... More

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The resurgence of ethics in the humanities reflects an increasing anxiety about the value and utility of critical/philosophical debate in the wake of ... More

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"Skirting the Ethical" presents highly original readings of six pivotal works that, disrupting our conventional concept of morality, point us towards ... More

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In this wide-ranging book, an eminent novelist, playwright, and literary critic explores the question that has troubled artists and philosophers ... More

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What is the relationship between literary criticism and ethics? The book sets these issues in context by analyzing the historical development of the ... More

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Language is the species-specific human version of the animal system of communication. In contrast to non-human animals, language enables humans to ... More

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Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of ... More

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The book gives an overview of critical research in information systems (CRIS), which will give a useful introduction to those students and ... More

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This volume is one of the most remarkable works in the history of economic thought. First published in 1893, its principal significance rests in its ... More

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McGinn's latest brings together moral philosophy and literary analysis in a way that illuminates both. Setting out to enrich the domain of moral ... More

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This latest offering from one of the founding figures of postmodernism is a collection of fifteen "fables" that ask, in the words of Jean-Francois ... More

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"This is a wonderful book--beautifully written, deeply moving, and philosophically well argued. I loved it."--Nel Noddings, author of "Caring: A ... More

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Tod Chambers suggests that literary theory is a crucial component in the complete understanding of bioethics. The Fiction of Bioethics explores the ... More

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"This book is a conceptualization of the literary aesthetic in relation to ethics, in particular, an ethics for a concern for the Self. Bringing ... More

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This book brings recent developments in Anglo-American philosophy into engagement with dominant currents in contemporary European social theory in ... More

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In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, invited to Princeton University to lecture on the moral status of animals, read a work of ... More

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Agents and Lives offers a new and important rethinking of the traditional 'humanist' view of literature.

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