{"product_id":"skirting-the-ethical-paperback","title":"Skirting the Ethical - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarol Jacobs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSkirting the Ethical\u003c\/i\u003e offers highly original readings of six works, each noted for its politico-ethical stance. The first four (Sophocles' \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e, Plato's \u003ci\u003eSymposium\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e and Hamann's \"Aesthetica in nuce\") have a recognized and honored place in the canon. The last two, Sebald's \u003ci\u003eThe Emigrants\u003c\/i\u003e and Jane Campion's film \u003ci\u003eThe Piano\u003c\/i\u003e, are exemplary for our contemporary scene. Nevertheless, the straightforward assumptions about justice, divine and state power, the good, and identity politics that every reader or viewer inevitably comes upon are disrupted when one takes into account the role of language: both the way in which language is talked about and the way in which it performs. What emerges is a non-prescriptive ethics of another order that offers a resistance to power and simplistic conceptualizations of truth, an emancipation from the \"must-be\" that implies an ever-to-be-renewed renegotiation--a responsability that has much to do with the act of critique or interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarol Jacobs is the Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Her previous books include: \u003ci\u003eThe Dissimulating Harmony\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), \u003ci\u003eUncontainable Romanticism\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eTelling Time\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), and \u003ci\u003eIn the Language of Walter Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e (1999).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 26, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748093100320,"sku":"9780804757904","price":32.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d2b06c1fd91bfa7bdb2ef49110e60421.webp?v=1779904357","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/skirting-the-ethical-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}