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Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Beyond of Language

by: Hughes, Robert

Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Beyond of Language

by: Hughes, Robert

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Copyright: 07/01/2010
Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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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 Nightmare of History	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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Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Beyond of Language

Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Beyond of Language

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