Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society

by Geoffrey Galt Harpham

In this volume Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues for a deeply original view of the relations among ethics, literary study, and critical theory. In thirteen lucid, provocative and often witty essays, Harpham rejects both the optimism of those who see ethics as a way of solving problems about values or principles and the pessimism of those who regard ethics as primarily a cover story for politics.
Ethics, he claims, has been seen by its most powerful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822323206
• ISBN13: 9780822323204
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.2"