The Ethics of Criticism by Tobin Siebers PAPERBACK 9781501728112

The Ethics of Criticism\nby Tobin Siebers\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Tobin Siebers\nTitle: The Ethics of Criticism\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary theory\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781501728112\nISBN-10: 1501728113\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nTobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and the attitudes fostered by the approaches. Building on analyses of the moral legacies of Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud, Siebers identifies the various fronts on which the co.