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This book examines ethical problems raised by a number of key twentieth-century theoretical and fictional texts by authors such as Levinas, Sartre, Beauvoir, Yourcenar, Duras and Genet.

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Ethical Criticism Otherness, Altercide Hermeneutic and Ethical Encounters: Gadamar and Levinas Ethics, Fiction, and the Death of the Other: Sartre and Kant Camus, Encounters, Reading Didacticism and the Ethics of Failure: Beauvoir Humanism and its Others: Sartre, Heidegger, Yourcenar Ethical Indifference: Duras Readers, Others: Genet Conclusions: Tarrying with the Negative Bibliography Index

Ethical Issues in Twentieth Century French

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      Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan UK
      Publication Date: 12/8/1999 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780333733714, 978-0333733714
      ISBN10: 0333733711
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book examines ethical problems raised by a number of key twentieth-century theoretical and fictional texts by authors such as Levinas, Sartre, Beauvoir, Yourcenar, Duras and Genet.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements Introduction: Ethical Criticism Otherness, Altercide Hermeneutic and Ethical Encounters: Gadamar and Levinas Ethics, Fiction, and the Death of the Other: Sartre and Kant Camus, Encounters, Reading Didacticism and the Ethics of Failure: Beauvoir Humanism and its Others: Sartre, Heidegger, Yourcenar Ethical Indifference: Duras Readers, Others: Genet Conclusions: Tarrying with the Negative Bibliography Index

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