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Joseph Conrad's ethical perspective is one of the deepest in twentieth-century fiction, yet its study has been overlooked in recent scholarship. Joseph Conrad and Ethics is one of very few books fully devoted to ethics in Conrad's fiction. It offers a thorough, in-depth analysis of Conrad's ethical reflection that challenges and extends current scholarly discussions.
The authors of this theoretically informed, accessible volume examine Conrad's representation of ethics through the lens of Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, and Ricoeur, among others, and confront Conrad's ethical perspective to these philosophers' views. Through detailed studies of works like "Heart of Darkness," The Secret Agent, Lord Jim and Under Western Eyes, they navigate the conflicted terrain of ethics and morality, highlighting the enmeshment of ethics and aesthetics, ethics and narrative, and ethics and ideology in Conrad's fiction. The key issues they address include the ethics of storytelling and readership, ethical commitment and detachment, the ethics of uncertainty and uneasiness, and planetary ethics and ethical disillusionment.Amar Acheraïou (PhD, Sorbonne Nouvelle) has taught literature for several years. He has published extensively on Joseph Conrad, modernist literature, postcolonial studies, French and North African literatures, and critical theory. His books include Rethinking Postcolonialism: Colonialist Discourse in Modern Literatures and the Legacy of Classical Writers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Joseph Conrad and the Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Questioning Hybridity, Postcolonialism and Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) and Joseph Conrad and the Orient (co-editor, Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives / Maria Curie-Sklodowska UP - East European Monographs - Columbia UP 2012).
Laëtitia Crémona (PhD, Sorbonne Nouvelle) works at the Research Vice-rectorate at Université de Montréal, Canada. She has written several articles on cinema and history, film adaptation and modernist literature, notably on Joseph Conrad and James Joyce.Thanks for subscribing!
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