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The Ethics of Reading : Kant, de Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin / J. Hillis Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, J. Hillis, 1899-1953, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deconstruction.
- Deconstructivism (Architecture).
- Literature and morals.
- Reader-response criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 1987.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Through an examination of the philosophy of Kant and de Man, as well as writings from Henry James, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope on the topic of reading, this study argues that there is a necessary ethical moment in the act of reading that is neither cognitive, nor political, nor social, nor interpersonal, but properly and independently ethical.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter One: Reading Doing Reading
- Chapter Two: Reading Telling: Kant
- Chapter Three: Reading Unreadability: de Man
- Chapter Four: Reading Writing: Eliot
- Chapter Five: Self Reading Self: Trollope
- Chapter Six: Re-Reading Re-Vision: James and Benjamin
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780231881760
- 0231881762
- OCLC:
- 1100430052
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