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Book SynopsisSkirting the Ethical presents highly original readings of six pivotal works that, disrupting our conventional concept of morality, point us towards a non-prescriptive mode of ethics, as an ever-to-be-renewed rethinking that has much to do with the act of interpretation.
Trade Review"It is a wise book, worth reading. . . The book has already prompted me to read two more works by Sebald and to teach the 'Republic' again." -- Marianne Constable *
Modern Philology *
"This is a superb book, sometimes breathtaking in its readings of central and not-so-canonical texts in the Western tradition. 'Literary' ethics is a rather different matter than that of daily-life decisions about whether or not to so something because it's good (or not). Yet the stakes of these literary and para-literary ethics are high, and Carol Jacobs does an exemplary job in articulating just what is entailed." -- Ian Balfour * York University *
Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Prologue: Skirting the Ethical iii @toc2:1. Dusting Antigone: Sophocles' Antigone 0 2 Virtue Inside Out: Plato's Symposium 00 3 Subversions of the Political: Plato's Republic 000 4 Hamann is a nomadic writer: Aesthetica in nuce 000 5 What does it mean to count? W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants 000 6 Playing Jane Campion's Piano: Politically 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Index 000
