The Ethics of Criticism
Abstract
Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and the attitudes fostered by the approaches. Building on analyses of the moral legacies of Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud, Siebers identifies the various fronts on which the concerns of critical theory impinge on those of ethics.
Keywords
Literary theory; Ethics and moral philosophyDOI
10.7298/9vz9-1k20ISBN
9781501721410, 9780801497124, 9780801421280, 9781501721427, 9781501728112, 9781501721410, 9781501721427Publisher
Cornell University PressPublisher website
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/Publication date and place
Ithaca, 1990Imprint
Cornell University PressClassification
Literary theory
Ethics and moral philosophy