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Overview"Joseph Conrad's ethical perspective is one of the deepest in twentieth-century fiction, yet its study has been overlooked in recent scholarship. Joseph Conrad and Ethics is one of very few books fully devoted to ethics in Conrad's fiction. It offers a thorough, in-depth analysis of Conrad's ethical reflection that challenges and extends current scholarly discussions. The authors of this theoretically informed, accessible volume examine Conrad's representation of ethics through the lens of Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, and Ricoeur, among others, and confront Conrad's ethical perspective to these philosophers' views. Through detailed studies of works like ""Heart of Darkness,"" The Secret Agent, Lord Jim and Under Western Eyes, they navigate the conflicted terrain of ethics and morality, highlighting the enmeshment of ethics and aesthetics, ethics and narrative, and ethics and ideology in Conrad's fiction. The key issues they address include the ethics of storytelling and readership, ethical commitment and detachment, the ethics of uncertainty and uneasiness, and planetary ethics and ethical disillusionment. Conrad is ambivalent about ethics and this interdisciplinary volume pivots around a fundamental Conradian ethical paradox: how to account for ethical responsibility in a world not meant for ethics in the first place and, as Conrad stated, whose ""aim cannot be ethical at all."" It demonstrates that Conrad adopts a planetary ethics that embraces the human condition in its universality, while he also doubts the viability of ethics itself. Via his protagonists' moral predicaments he expresses both the necessity of ethics in human relationships and the impossibility of individual ethical fulfillment. The book is volume 30 of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, edited by Wiesław Krajka. It explores a major, understudied Conradian topic – Ethics, and adds an important thematic and theoretical dimension to this series. The chapters are written by experts from various universities worldwide, in keeping with the international, cosmopolitan spirit of Eastern and Western Perspectives. The authors' wide-ranging, original perspectives on ethics open new venues in Conrad scholarship that will greatly benefit scholars and students of Conrad, modernism, and ethics." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amar Acheraiou , Laëtitia CrémonaPublisher: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press Imprint: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.624kg ISBN: 9788322794579ISBN 10: 8322794576 Pages: 330 Publication Date: 25 October 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAmar Acheraïou: Introduction Amar Acheraïou: Narrative and Ethics: Being, Meaning, and Reading Aileen Miyki Farrar: Narrative Autophagy and the Ethics of Storytelling in “Heart of Darkness” J. A. Bernstein: Under Straining Eyes: Joseph Conrad and the Problem of “Moral Luck” Thomas Higgins: “He died for the Revolution”: Anarchism and Ethical Commitment in The Secret Agent Catherine Delesalle-Nancey: Ethics as The Secret Agent in Joseph Conrad’s Novel Laëtitia Crémona: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics in Hitchcock’s Sabotage Nathalie Martinière: An Ethics of Uneasiness: Reading Joseph Conrad’s African stories with Francis Bacon Subhadeep Ray: “After such knowledge what forgiveness?”: Nature, Community and Individual Ethics in Joseph Conrad’s “Because of the Dollars” and Adwaita Mallabarman’s A River Called Titas Harold Ray Stevens: The Cross of Christ as Afterthought: Killing the Christian Ethic at “An Outpost of Progress”ReviewsAuthor InformationAmar Acheraïou (PhD, Sorbonne Nouvelle) has taught literature for several years. He has published extensively on Joseph Conrad, modernist literature, postcolonial studies, French and North African literatures, and critical theory. His books include Rethinking Postcolonialism: Colonialist Discourse in Modern Literatures and the Legacy of Classical Writers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Joseph Conrad and the Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Questioning Hybridity, Postcolonialism and Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) and Joseph Conrad and the Orient (co-editor, Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives / Maria Curie-Skłodowska UP – East European Monographs - Columbia UP 2012). Laëtitia Crémona (PhD, Sorbonne Nouvelle) works at the Research Vice-rectorate at Université de Montréal, Canada. She has written several articles on cinema and history, film adaptation and modernist literature, notably on Joseph Conrad and James Joyce. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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