Getting it right : language, literature, and ethics

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Getting it right : language, literature, and ethics

Geoffrey Galt Harpham

University of Chicago Press, 1992

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-237) and index

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Description

In a critical scene deeply troubled by questions of justice and responsibility, and beset by political and moral scandals, no issue in recent years has been more urgent or more unsettled than the question of ethics. Geoffrey Galt Harpham, whose previous book, The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism, was one of the first to announce the critical renewal of ethics, attempts in this new book to explain why ethical questions resist settlement. He urges a new account of ethics not as a stable set of principles, values, or prescriptions, but as a variable factor of "imperativity" immanent in language, analysis, narrative, and creation.

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  • NCID
    BA18329892
  • ISBN
    • 0226316939
    • 0226316947
  • LCCN
    91035267
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chicago
  • Pages/Volumes
    viii, 246 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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