{"product_id":"skirting-the-ethical-paperback-softback-9780804757904","title":"Skirting the Ethical (Paperback \/ softback) 9780804757904","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSkirting the Ethical\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarol Jacobs (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804757904\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 November 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 1 figure, 4 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"It is a wise book, worth reading. . . The book has already prompted me to read two more works by Sebald and to teach the 'Republic' again.\" - Marianne Constable (\u003ci\u003eModern Philology\u003c\/i\u003e) \"This is a superb book, sometimes breathtaking in its readings of central and not-so-canonical texts in the Western tradition. 'Literary' ethics is a rather different matter than that of daily-life decisions about whether or not to so something because it's good (or not). Yet the stakes of these literary and para-literary ethics are high, and Carol Jacobs does an exemplary job in articulating just what is entailed.\" - Ian Balfour (York University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSkirting the Ethical\u003c\/i\u003e offers highly original readings of six works, each noted for its politico-ethical stance. The first four (Sophocles' \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e, Plato's \u003ci\u003eSymposium\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e and Hamann's \"Aesthetica in nuce\") have a recognized and honored place in the canon. The last two, Sebald's \u003ci\u003eThe Emigrants\u003c\/i\u003e and Jane Campion's film \u003ci\u003eThe Piano\u003c\/i\u003e, are exemplary for our contemporary scene. Nevertheless, the straightforward assumptions about justice, divine and state power, the good, and identity politics that every reader or viewer inevitably comes upon are disrupted when one takes into account the role of language: both the way in which language is talked about and the way in which it performs. What emerges is a non-prescriptive ethics of another order that offers a resistance to power and simplistic conceptualizations of truth, an emancipation from the \"must-be\" that implies an ever-to-be-renewed renegotiation—a responsability that has much to do with the act of critique or interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52548830134552,"sku":"9780804757904","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/skirting-the-ethical-paperback-softback-9780804757904","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}