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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 February 2010
      10 December 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511586200
      9780521620796
      9780521629386
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511586200
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.445kg, 302 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 304 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Philosophy: General Interest, Literary Theory, Philosophy
      Series:
      Literature, Culture, Theory (31)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Philosophy: General Interest, Literary Theory, Philosophy
    Series:
    Literature, Culture, Theory (31)
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    Is it possible for postmodernism to offer viable, coherent accounts of ethics? Or are our social and intellectual worlds too fragmented for any broad consensus about the moral life? These issues have emerged as some of the most contentious in literary and philosophical studies. In Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory a distinguished international gathering of philosophers and literary scholars address the reconceptualisations involved in this 'turn towards ethics'. An important feature of this has been a renewed interest in the literary text as a focus for the exploration of ethical issues. Exponents of this trend include Charles Taylor, Bernard Williams, Iris Murdoch, Cora Diamond, Richard Rorty and Martha Nussbaum, the latter a contributor and a key figure in this volume. This book assesses the significance of this development for ethical and literary theory and attempts to articulate an alternative postmodern account of ethics which does not rely on earlier appeals to universal truths.

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