{"product_id":"failure-and-ethics-in-contemporary-daniel-dufournaud-9781399554466","title":"Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature","description":"\u003ci\u003eFailure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature \u003c\/i\u003econtends that failure is both a response to the social and economic conditions of neoliberalism and a site of ethical imagining where alternative modes of being and being together are proposed. Daniel Dufournaud capaciously construes failure to include performing badly, unhappiness and dysphoria, family dysfunction, and formal discontinuity. He contends that the function of failure in contemporary American literature resonates with the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. For Levinas, the self emerges as a conscious subject only through the imposition of the Other, a preconscious sequence that installs responsibility for others at the heart of selfhood. Levinas frames the suspension of egoism and the self's concomitant awareness of its constitutive responsibility as an ethical interruption. Similarly, this study's primary texts treat failure as an interruption that forces the self to acknowledge its foundational sociality, an acknowledgement that contests neoliberalism's individualist protocols.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Dufournaud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399554468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399554466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs","brand":"Daniel Dufournaud","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48623491907839,"sku":"9781399554466","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/failure-and-ethics-in-contemporary-daniel-dufournaud-9781399554466","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}