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The Turn to Ethics

Edited by Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen, Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Published August 11th 2000 by Routledge – 256 pages

Series: CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard

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    What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory. The philosophers, political theorists, literary critics and physician whose essays are collected here bring the particularities of their disciplines and training to a vital complex of questions.

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    "The contributors to this fine collection are from a wide range of backgrounds, including literary studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and pediactrics… a careful reading of each essay is a richly rewarding experience." -- Nicholas Pagan

    Author Bio

    Marjorie Garber is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. She is Editor of the Routledge book series CultureWork and author of Symptoms of Culture. Beatrice Hanssen is Associate Professor of German at Harvard University and author of Critique of Violence: Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory. Rebecca L. Walkowitz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Associate Editor of the CultureWork series.

    Name: The Turn to Ethics (Paperback) – Routledge 
    Description: Edited by Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen, Rebecca L. Walkowitz. What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory. The philosophers, political theorists, literary critics and physician whose essays are...
    Categories: Moral Theory, Cultural Studies, Critical Concepts