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Joseph Conrad and Ethics

Joseph Conrad and Ethics

Acheraiou, Amar
Crémona, Laëtitia

Hardcover

Series: Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives

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ISBN10: 8322794576
ISBN13: 9788322794579
Publisher: Maria Curie Sklodowska Univ Pr
Published: Jul 19 2022
Pages: 329
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.59 Depth: 8.43
Language: English

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.

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