Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory

Table of Contents

Introduction: the turn to ethics in the 1990s David Parker
Part I. Ethics, Literature and Philosophy:
1. Deepening the self: the language of ethics and the language of literature Simon Haines
2. Martha Nussbaum and the need for novels Cora Diamond
3. The concept of dread: sympathy and ethics in Daniel Deronda Lisabeth During
4. Against tidiness: literature and/versus moral philosophy: a response to Cora Diamond, Martha Nussbaum and Iris Murdoch Jane Adamson
Part II. Ethics and Agency:
5. What differences can contemporary poetry make in our moral thinking? Charles Altieri
6. Moral luck in Paris: A Moveable Feast and the ethics of autobiography Richard Freadman
7. The unseemly profession: privacy, inviolate personality, and the ethics of life writing Paul John Eakin
8. The patient writes back: bioethics and the pathography John Wiltshire
Part III. Politics and Ethics:
9. Literature, power and the recovery of philosophical ethics C. A. J. Coady and Seamus Miller
10. The literary imagination in public life Martha C. Nussbaum
11. Ethics in many different voices Annette C. Baier
12. Common understanding and individual voices Raimond Gaita.

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