Search Results for ethical criticism

... and ethical problems of perspective raised by the act of narration itself, that also epitomized the strengths of the genre for Ōgai. His work throughout his career engages readers in moving stories of ethically complex interactions, while at the same time demanding a reflexive critical consciousness...

...Amie Parry; Liu Jen-peng Both avant-garde and popular, Lucifer Hung's writing has attracted a significant amount of critical attention in Chinese academic circles for its explicit sexual and violent content. This article identifies an ethical conundrum faced by critics who want to support Hung's...

.... Unfortunately, many critics failed to grasp the dilemmas of the present conditions insofar as they turned away from cinema and its role in constituting the present. Critical writings on art tended to adhere to a modern imagination privileging autonomy: an observer and a discrete work, as with literature...

... of the blind, the one-­eyed poke their other eye out. Following these savage studies it is almost a meditative relief to read this issue’s final three essays. Christopher Weinberger’s “Triangulating an Ethos: Ethical Criticism, Novel Alterity...

....” Proponents of the former condemned the latter as a dangerous threat to “traditional” gender norms. Yet new women—few in number and with their publications closely regulated by government authorities—did not appear to present a threat commensurate with the attacks its critics launched. How should we assess...

... of the brutal images that were to follow. Critics have generally focused on the violence or gender politics raised by Kim Ki-duk’s films, but their arguments often assume that we are in a position to make ethical judgments about...

.... The colonized should refigure it in relation to the other, refus- ing the idea of equal exchange in language. Translation refigured as such is elevated to an ethical and political practice, thus implying a fundamental criticism of colonial domination. Put...

... ingratiates democratic citizenship practices within the interstices of the party-state, Yu suggests that critics may wish to grasp the transformative powers of current media society in relation to older, more strictly representational codes...

... and poetics, responsibility and remembering, imagination as a means of compassion, the poet and her loyal critic ask readers to see in the postmemory of diasporic people a generalizable or universal ethic. Coining a resonant term, “the latter-­day...

...,” in Hermeneutics and Critical Theory in Ethics and Politics, ed. Michael Kelly (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990), 1–31. Chen Peripheral Justice 373 19 Jurgen Habermas, Theory of Communicative...

....” Some, like literary critic Cathy Caruth in Unclaimed Experience, moved beyond the Holocaust, broadening questions of trauma to other events and developing a narrative theory on the basis of work on trauma that would, in turn, be heavily...

..., not to the culture of that state’s inhabitants.1 The cosmopolitan, on Kant’s view, is the practical (ethical) manifestation of the theoretical (rational) concept of the universal. It is universality with worldly, intersubjective content that describes...

..., political, and ethical project. The first is his antinationalism: Tagore believed in a proper and judicious cultural pride as an alternative to chauvinistic nationalism. The second is his program of repositioning India and Asia in a global...

... of antitraditionalism. Indeed, from physics and chemistry to astronomy and geography, the theory of evolution to the theory of rela- tivity, human psychology to human behavior, ethics and morals to political convictions, and so on, the concept...

... and their (sometimes imaginary) antagonists, anonymous middle-­brow bloggers, angry and defensive Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology (MIT) professors, and media reporters readying the conventional yellow-­peril scare scenario, restating pious criticisms...

..., in terms of using the imagination as a means of compassion, and understanding things one couldn't have experienced.” If Notes from the Divided Country is a work created from a sense of ethical responsibility, we could perhaps also see it more specifically as a project of ethical memory and ask, along...

...Minh T. N. Nguyen; Phill Wilcox; Jake Lin Abstract The emergent quest for the good life in rapidly transforming China, Laos, and Vietnam can only be understood as part of the political economy of late socialism. This special issue critically engages with the notion of the good life and its...

.... In examining a sequence of Tanigawa's poetry and certain of his critical essays, the author tries to disrupt such readings by arguing that his attempt to conceive of a practice of writing, not focused on the substantialization of “the people” or the region but, rather, on the dynamic flux of energy produced...

... of the objective end of the law. The belief in productive fate and the cult of personality are two sides Badiou ❘❘ Further Selections from Théorie du sujet 651 of the same historical ethics. Stalin gives us its fusional version: five-year...

... ethical and aesthetic narrativization of heterosexual male fear of, and fascination with, desire for women (hao nu se). Narration functions in this case as the primary mode of representation whose structuring principle is an ethical...