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100			_aJacobs, Carol
245			_aSkirting the ethical
260			_bStanford University Press, _c2008 _aStanford :
300			_axxiii, 223 p. ; _bill., _c23 cm
365			_b26.00 _c$ _d90.60
490			_aMeridian
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aSkirting the Ethical offers highly original readings of six works, each noted for its politico-ethical stance. The first four (Sophocles' Antigone, Plato's Symposium and Republic and Hamann's "Aesthetica in nuce") have a recognized and honored place in the canon. The last two, Sebald's The Emigrants and Jane Campion's film The Piano, 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.
650			_aFilm
650			_aMotion pictures
650			_aMoral and ethical aspects
650			_aLiterary Criticism
650			_aPerforming Arts
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