Overview

This title explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn to art when writing about ethics.

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Author:   Robert Hughes
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9781438431932

ISBN 10:   1438431937
Pages:   243
Publication Date:   01 July 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Opening Questions: Ethics, Literature, and the Beyond of Language In Lieu of a Historical Introduction 1. Sleepy Hollow: Fearful Pleasures and the Nightmare of History Rhythmic Beauty and Dreamy Charm: Memory, History, and the Pleasurable Tale Sleepy Hollow and the Nightmare of History Fearful Pleasures: From Trauma to the Uncanny Postscript: The Moral of the Story and What It Goes to Prove 2. Lacan and the Beyond of Language: From Art to Ethics The Work of Art, the Emptiness of the Signifier, the Representation of the Thing The Head of Beatrice: The Mystery of the Beautiful and the Limit of Death Ethics: From the Vicissitudes of Being to the Passion of the Signifier 3. Brown's Wieland and the Ethical Circumscription of Death Literary Morality and the Romance of Family Murder The Presence of the Divine Word and the Movement of the Signifier The Unforsaken Image Writing out of Death 4. Heideggerian Ethics: The Voice of Art and the Call to Being Language, Poetry, and the Unconcealment of Being Heidegger's Van Gogh: The Shoes That Stared, the Painting that Spoke The Call of Language and the Obligation to Bear Witness to One's Existence Not at Home: Heidegger and the Ethical Uncanny 5. Levinas: Art and the Transcendence of Solitude Art and the Grammar of Being Aesthetics, Vulnerability, and Proximity to the Other Saying the Word and Seeking the Other in the Poem Irresistible: The Event of Art and the Call for an Ethical Criticism 6. Endings: Ethics, Enigma, and Address in The Marble Faun Hawthorne's Final Romance Time, the Eternal City, and the Disadvantage of the History of Life The End of the Romance, the Death of the Reader, and the Impossible Address 7. Riven: Badiou's Ethical Subject and the Event of Art as Trauma The Event of Art: The Hole of Truth and the Punctured Subject A Thing of Nothing: Ethics and the Phantom Excess Badiou on Levinas, Love, and the Poetic Naming of Ethics Epilogue: Word after Word Notes Works Cited Index

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Robert Hughes is Assistant Professor of English at the Ohio State University and coeditor (with Kareen Ror Malone) of After Lacan: Clinical Practice and the Subject of the Unconscious, also published by SUNY Press.

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