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This work offers a multi-disciplinary investigation of the question and status of ethics in light of the current "return to ethics" underway in a variety of critical fields. By assembling the work of nine leading critics from disciplines including philosophy, women's studies, cultural studies, anthropology, literary studies and history, this collection should help to frame the conversation on the status of ethics in the coming years.
This work offers a multi-disciplinary investigation of the question and status of ethics in light of the current "return to ethics" underway in a variety of critical fields. By assembling the work of nine leading critics from disciplines including philosophy, women's studies, cultural studies, anthropology, literary studies and history, this collection should help to frame the conversation on the status of ethics in the coming years.
Introduction Howard Marchitello 1. The Uses and Abuses of Memory Tzvetan Todorov 2. History and the Duty to Memory in Postwar France: The Pitfalls of an Ethics of Remembrance Richard J. Golan 3. Witnessing Otherness in History Kelly Oliver 4. The Ethos of History Krzysztof Ziarek 5. Merleau-Ponty's Chiasm and the Ethical Call of Situated Criticism Lowell Gallagher 6. Heterology and Post-Historicist Ethics Howard Marchitello 7. Mexico's Gas, Mexico's Tears: Expositions of Identity David E. Johnson 8. Reports of the Death of Cultures Have Been Exaggerated Marshall Sahlins 9. A Moral Dilemma Gayatri Spivak
Howard Marchitello is Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University. He is the author of Narrative andMeaning in Early Modern England.
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