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041			_aEnglish
082	0	0	_a170 _223 _bDOR
100	1		_aDoran, Robert,
245	1	4	_aThe ethics of theory : _bphilosophy, history, literature / _cRobert Doran.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aLondon ; New York : _bBloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PIc, _c2017.
300			_ax, 229 pages ; _c25 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505			_tPart : 1 Philosophy. _t1. Ethics beyond existentialism and structuralism : _t2. Foucault's "ethics of the self" _t3. Derrida in Heidelberg : the specter of Heidegger's Nazism and the question of ethics -- _t4. Richard Rorty's "cultural politics" : ironist philosophy and the ethics of reading -- _tPart: 2 History. _t5. From Metahistory to The practical past : Hayden White's existentialist philosophy of history -- _t6. Hayden White and the ethics of historiography -- _tPart: 3 Literature. _t7. The ethics of conversion : metaphysical desire in René Girard, and Jean-Paul Sartre -- _t8. The ethics of realism : literary history and the sublime in Erich Auerbach's Mimesis -- _t9. The ethics of philology : Erich Auerbach and the fate of humanism -- _t10. Edward Said, Orientalism, and the "political turn" in literary and cultural studies.
520			_aRobert Doran offers the first broad assessment of the ethical challenges of Critical Theory across the humanities and social sciences, calling into question the sharp dichotomy typically drawn between the theoretical and the ethical, the analytical and the prescriptive. In a series of discrete but interrelated interventions, Doran exposes the ethical underpinnings of theoretical discourses that are often perceived as either oblivious to or highly skeptical of any attempt to define ethics or politics. Doran thus discusses a variety of themes related to the problematic status of ethics or the ethico-political in Theory: the persistence of existentialist ethics in structuralist, poststructuralist, and postcolonial writing; the ethical imperative of the return of the subject (self-creation versus social conformism); the intimate relation between the ethico-political and the aesthetic (including the role of literary history in Erich Auerbach and Edward Said); the political implications of a "philosophy of the present" for Continental thought (including Heidegger's Nazism); the ethical dimension of the debate between history and theory (including Hayden White's idea of the "practical past" and the question of Holocaust representation); the "ethical turn" in Foucault, Derrida, and Rorty; the post-1987 "political turn" in literary and cultural studies (especially as influenced by Said).
650		0	_aCritical theory.
650		0	_aEthics.
942			_2ddc _cBOOKS
100	1		_d1968- _eauthor.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aDoran, Robert, 1968- author. _tEthics of theory _dNew York : Bloomsbury, 2016 _z9781474225915 _w(DLC) 2016021536
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