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The Ethics of Horror

Author : Michael J. Burke
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666910858

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The Ethics of Horror by Michael J. Burke Pdf

The Ethics of Horror: Spectral Alterity in Twenty-First Century Horror Film examines the theme of spectral haunting in contemporary American horror cinema through the lens of ethical responsibility. Arguing that moral obligation can manifest as terror to the complacent self, the text extracts this dimension of ethics in twenty-first century horror films. Drawing on the ethical theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, which posit the asymmetrical obligation of the self to the other, Michael Burke highlights how recent horror films portray spectral antagonists as ethical others that hound protagonists and summon them to an accountability that they can neither evade nor ever completely fulfill. Burke observes the resulting destabilization of notions of ethical responsibility and justice in a variety of contemporary horror subgenres, including technohorror, haunted house and zombie films.

The Ethics of Witnessing

Author : Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810129757

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The Ethics of Witnessing by Rachel Feldhay Brenner Pdf

Winner, 2015 USC Book Award in Literary and Cultural Studies, for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the fields of literary and cultural studies The Ethics of Witnessing investigates the reactions of five important Polish diaristswriters—Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Maria Dabrowska, Aurelia Wylezynska, Zofia Nalkowska, and Stanislaw Rembek—during the period when the Nazis persecuted and murdered Warsaw’s Jewish population. The responses to the Holocaust of these prominent prewar authors extended from insistence on empathic interaction with victims to resentful detachment from Jewish suffering. Whereas some defied the dehumanization of the Jews and endeavored to maintain intersubjective relationships with the victims they attempted to rescue, others selfdeceptively evaded the Jewish plight. The Ethics of Witnessing examines the extent to which ideologies of humanism and nationalism informed the diarists’ perceptions, proposing that the reality of the Final Solution exposed the limits of both orientations and ultimately destroyed the ethical landscape shaped by the Enlightenment tradition, which promised the equality and fellowship of all human beings.

The Ethics of Time

Author : John Panteleimon Manoussakis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474299152

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The Ethics of Time by John Panteleimon Manoussakis Pdf

The Ethics of Time utilizes the resources of phenomenology and hermeneutics to explore this under-charted field of philosophical inquiry. Its rigorous analyses of such phenomena as waiting, memory, and the body are carried out phenomenologically, as it engages in a hermeneutical reading of such classical texts as Augustine's Confessions and Sophocles's Oedipus Rex, among others. The Ethics of Time takes seriously phenomenology's claim of a consciousness both constituting time and being constituted by time. This claim has some important implications for the “ethical” self or, rather, for the ways in which such a self informed by time, might come to understand anew the problems of imperfection and ethical goodness. Even though a strictly philosophical endeavour, this book engages knowledgeably and deftly with subjects across literature, theology and the arts and will be of interest to scholars throughout these disciplines.

Chaos Ethics

Author : Chris Bateman
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781782797692

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Chaos Ethics by Chris Bateman Pdf

Balance has no meaning for a politics that is merely the continuation of war by other means. Both religious zealots and defenders of scientific fact declare a monopoly on truth and the moral law, while radicals are powerless to resist since they have lost faith that ethics can be anything but arbitrary. Meanwhile, insane bureaucracy devastates life while nations fall into dishonor as they abandon their promises of justice. If the moral law cannot save us, perhaps it is time to try moral chaos. Chaos Ethics collides philosophers such as Kant, Nietzsche, Levinas, Mary Midgley, Alasdair MacInytre, Alain Badiou, Isabelle Stengers, and Bruno Latour with everything from cyberpunk science fiction and the fantasy novels of Michael Moorcock to Google, gay marriage, drone assassinations, and the ethics of cats and dogs. A strange and wondrous journey through morality viewed as a facet of imagination that offers a new perspective in which the diversity of ethics is a strength not a weakness, hesitation is more noble than certainty, and virtue can be expressed in both law and chaos.

What are Qualitative Research Ethics?

Author : Rose Wiles
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849666527

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What are Qualitative Research Ethics? by Rose Wiles Pdf

This book is a short, accessible guide to the key issues in qualitative research. The book covers new online practices as well as traditional methods.

The Cambridge Handbook of the Ethics of Ageing

Author : C. S. Wareham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108856560

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The Cambridge Handbook of the Ethics of Ageing by C. S. Wareham Pdf

We're all getting older from the moment we're born. Ageing is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of life. Yet in ethics, not much work is done on the questions surrounding ageing: how do diachronic features of ageing and the lifespan contribute to the overall value of life? How do time, change, and mortality impact on questions of morality and the good life? And how ought societies to respond to issues of social justice and the good, balancing the interests of generations and age cohorts? In this Cambridge Handbook, the first book-length attempt to stake this terrain, leading moral philosophers from a range of sub-fields and regions set out their approaches to the conceptual and ethical understanding of ageing. The volume makes an important contribution to significant debates about the implications of ageing for individual well-being, social policy and social justice.

Heidegger and the Place of Ethics

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847143266

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Heidegger and the Place of Ethics by Michael Lewis Pdf

Despite Heidegger's identifying his own thought with 'ethics' in the most original sense, his understanding of ethics has been criticised both for its supposed ignorance of the role of the other human being and for its relation to politics. This book contends that, in fact, it is Heidegger's own notion of 'being-with' -his rethinking of intersubjectivity- which demonstrates precisely what is wrong with his early work and demands that the place of ethics be rethought. Heidegger and the Place of Ethics shows how this rethinking occurs in Heidegger's own laterwork. In particular, the crossing out of the earlier work in the turn to the later allows us to think 'being-with' as essential to a Heideggerian ethics and to rethink the relationship between ethics and politics which previously issued in Heidegger's engagement with Nazism. This rethinking of ethics and politics in light of the originality of 'being-with' brings us before a hitherto unnoticed proximity between Heidegger's later work and the Lacanian political thought of Slavoj Žižek among others; it thereby opens up the possibility of a politically progressive Heideggerianism, and many unexpected encounters with thinkers generally considered to be separated from Heidegger by an abyss.

The Ethics of Cultural Studies

Author : Joanna Zylinska
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441101969

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The Ethics of Cultural Studies by Joanna Zylinska Pdf

Ethical questions feature prominently on today's cultural and political agendas. The Ethics of Cultural Studies presents an ethical manifesto for Cultural Studies, an exploration of its current ethical and political concerns, and of its future challenges. The book is concerned with ethics in the material world, and draws on examples as diverse as cloning and genetics, asylum and immigration, experiments in plastic surgery and in electronic and digital art, memories of the Holocaust, September 11th, and media representations of violence and crime. The Ethics of Cultural Studies is a groundbreaking intervention that sets the debate on ethics in cultural study, and offers an invaluable source of ideas for students of contemporary culture.

Religious Horror and the Ecogothic

Author : Mary Going,Kathleen Hudson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781666945966

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Religious Horror and the Ecogothic by Mary Going,Kathleen Hudson Pdf

Religious Horror and the Ecogothic explores the intersections of Anglophone Christianity and the Ecogothic, a subgenre that explores the ecocritical in Gothic literature, film, and media. Acknowledging the impact of Christian ideologies upon interpretations of human relationships with the environment, the Ecogothic in turn interrogates spiritual identity and humanity’s darker impulses in relation to ecological systems. Through a survey of Ecogothic texts from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book illuminates the ways in which a Christianized understanding of hierarchy, dominion, fear, and sublimity shapes reactions to the environment and conceptions of humanity’s place therein. It interrogates the discourses which inform environmental policy, as well as definitions of the “human” in a rapidly changing world.

Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama

Author : Noam Reisner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781009462440

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Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama by Noam Reisner Pdf

An investigation of how Renaissance English revenge drama carried out important ethical work through audience participation and metatheatre.

Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity

Author : S. Weller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230506060

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Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity by S. Weller Pdf

In Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity Weller argues through an analysis of the interrelated topics of translation, comedy, and gender that to read Beckett in this way is to miss the strangely 'anethical' nature of his work, as opposed to the notion that the literary event constitutes the affirmation of an alterity.

Ethics of Literary Forms in Contemporary American Literature

Author : Rüdiger Heinze
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3825885364

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Ethics of Literary Forms in Contemporary American Literature by Rüdiger Heinze Pdf

This work links ethics and the formal arrangement of literary texts. It shows that specific formal techniques and devices and the overall form of literary texts always have an ethical dimension and beg certain ethical questions. Covering the three main genres of narrative, drama and poetry, the discussion addresses aspects of syntax, line breaks, mise-en-scene and narrative situation as well as the table of contents, list of characters and chapter structure in six texts by contemporary American authors (Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, John Ashbery and Jorie Graham).

The Ethics of Autobiography

Author : Angel G. Loureiro
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Authors, Exiled
ISBN : 0826513506

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The Ethics of Autobiography by Angel G. Loureiro Pdf

After laying out these theoretical foundations, Loureiro puts them to work in analyzing four of the most fascinating autobiographies written by Spanish exiles: The Life of Joseph Blanco White, who lived from 1775 to 1841, Memoria de la Melancolia by Maria Teresa Leon (1904-1988), Coto vedado and En los reinos de taifa by Juan Goytisolo (born 1931), and Literature or Life by Jorge Semprun (born 1923). The lives of these authors, all of whom were exiled for political reasons, were disrupted by some of the most crucial events in Spain's tortuous road to modernity and democracy. The book closes with a discussion of why there have been so few critical examinations of autobiographies written in modern Spain. Loureiro proposes that, even in today's Spain, stifling social and political forces smother ethical responsibility, which is an essential ingredient in creating autobiographies that dare to be more than a humdrum inventory of personal recollections.

Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Allan Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317637950

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Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals) by Allan Hunter Pdf

First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind’s ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day. Allan Hunter establishes Conrad’s detailed knowledge of the leading evolutionary arguments of the period and the main questions posed: were ethics God-given or were morals merely an evolved attribute? His novels are shown as debates with, and extensions of, the theories of Huxley, Darwin, Carlyle, Spencer, Lombroso and others on the nature of humanity and altruism.

Ethics

Author : James Wm. McClendon JR.,James William, Jr. McClendon
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780687000548

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Ethics by James Wm. McClendon JR.,James William, Jr. McClendon Pdf

When it first appeared in 1986, James McClendon's Ethics laid claim to two compelling theological ideas: first, that a highly distinctive theological perspective characterizes the inheritors of the sixteenth century's radical reformation. At the heart of this perspective is what McClendon calls the baptist vision, a way of understanding the gospel that emphasizes the church's distinction from the world, and its continuity with the church of the New Testament. Second, that because of its emphasis on the centrality of discipleship, this radical reformation outlook insists that theology's first task is to discover and explore the shape of the church's common life as the body of Christ; hence McClendon's novel decision to begin the task of writing a systematic theology with a volume on ethics. Since its first publication, Ethics has been followed by Doctrine (1994), and Witness (2000). The completion of the overall work has brought into sharper focus many of the theological and ethical issues and concerns central to the baptist tradition. In this revised edition of Ethics, McClendon infuses his claim for the priority of ethics within the theological task with a new urgency, born of the fuller, more complete definition of the baptist vision that Doctrine and Witness have made possible. Ethics is central, he reminds us, because biblical faith rests on a set of distinctive practices that arise from our placement within a larger Christian story. In his revisions McClendon offers a more complete explanation of how the interaction of faithful practices and gospel story give rise to a way of life that is distinctively Christian.