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Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Beyond of Language
ISBN: 9781438431932 | 1438431937
Format: HardcoverPublisher: State Univ of New York Pr
Pub. Date: 7/1/2010
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Explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn to art when writing about ethics.
| List of Illustrations | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Opening Questions: Ethics, Literature, and the Beyond of Language | p. 1 |
| In Lieu of a Historical Introduction | p. 7 |
| Sleepy Hollow: Fearful Pleasures and the Nightmare of History | p. 13 |
| Rhythmic Beauty and Dreamy Charm: Memory, History, and the Pleasurable Tale | p. 13 |
| Sleepy Hollow and the Nightma... MORE | p. 16 |
| Fearful Pleasures: From Trauma to the Uncanny | p. 26 |
| Postscript: The Moral of the Story and What It Goes to Prove | p. 34 |
| Lacan and the Beyond of Language: From Art to Ethics | p. 39 |
| The Work of Art, the Emptiness of the Signifier, the Representation of the Thing | p. 41 |
| The Head of Beatrice: The Mystery of the Beautiful and the Limit of Death | p. 48 |
| Ethics: From the Vicissitudes of Being to the Passion of the Signifier | p. 55 |
| Brown's Wieland and the Ethical Circumscription of Death | p. 61 |
| Literary Morality and the Romance of Family Murder | p. 61 |
| The Presence of the Divine Word and the Movement of the Signifier | p. 65 |
| The Unforsaken Image | p. 72 |
| Writing out of Death | p. 78 |
| Heideggerian Ethics: The Voice of Art and the Call to Being | p. 85 |
| Language, Poetry, and the Unconcealment of Being | p. 86 |
| Heidegger's van Gogh: The Shoes That Stared, the Painting That Spoke | p. 89 |
| The Call of Language and the Obligation to Bear Witness to One's Existence | p. 96 |
| Not at Home: Heidegger and the Ethical Uncanny | p. 100 |
| Levinas: Art and the Transcendence of Solitude | p. 113 |
| Art and the Grammar of Being | p. 115 |
| Aesthetics, Vulnerability, and Proximity to the Other | p. 123 |
| Saying the Word and Seeking the Other in the Poem | p. 127 |
| Irresistible: The Event of Art and the Call for an Ethical Criticism | p. 132 |
| Endings: Ethics, Enigma, and Address in The Marble Faun | p. 137 |
| Hawthorne's Final Romance | p. 137 |
| Time, the Eternal City, and the Disadvantage of History for Life | p. 141 |
| The End of the Romance, the Death of the Reader, and the Impossible Address | p. 151 |
| Riven: Badiou's Ethical Subject and the Event of Art as Trauma | p. 159 |
| The Event of Art: The Hole of Truth and the Punctured Subject | p. 161 |
| A Thing of Nothing: Ethics and the Phantom Excess | p. 165 |
| Badiou on Levinas, Love, and the Poetic Naming of Ethics | p. 172 |
| Epilogue: Word after Word | p. 185 |
| Notes | p. 189 |
| Works Cited | p. 215 |
| Index | p. 225 |
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