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The Ethics of Theory: Philosophy, History, Literature

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In The Ethics of Theory, Robert 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 ; the intimate relation between the ethico-political and the aesthetic ; the political implications of a “philosophy of the present” for Continental thought ; the ethical dimension of the debate between history and theory ; the “ethical turn” in Foucault, Derrida, and Rorty; the post-1987 “political turn” in literary and cultural studies .

Drawing from a broad range of Continental philosophers and cultural theorists, including many texts that have only recently become available, Doran charts a new path that recognizes the often complex motivations that underlie the critical impulse, motivations that are not always apparent or avowed.

Pages: 240

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Release: November 17, 2016

ISBN: 1474225934

ISBN 13: 9781474225939

The Ethics of Theory: Philosophy, History, Literature

4/5 ( ratings)

In The Ethics of Theory, Robert 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 ; the intimate relation between the ethico-political and the aesthetic ; the political implications of a “philosophy of the present” for Continental thought ; the ethical dimension of the debate between history and theory ; the “ethical turn” in Foucault, Derrida, and Rorty; the post-1987 “political turn” in literary and cultural studies .

Drawing from a broad range of Continental philosophers and cultural theorists, including many texts that have only recently become available, Doran charts a new path that recognizes the often complex motivations that underlie the critical impulse, motivations that are not always apparent or avowed.

Pages: 240

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Release: November 17, 2016

ISBN: 1474225934

ISBN 13: 9781474225939

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