{"product_id":"skirting-the-ethical-9780804757904","title":"Skirting the Ethical","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSkirting the Ethical\u003c\/i\u003e offers highly original readings of six works, each noted for its politico-ethical stance. The first four (Sophocles' \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e, Plato's \u003ci\u003eSymposium\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e and Hamann's \"Aesthetica in nuce\") have a recognized and honored place in the canon. The last two, Sebald's \u003ci\u003eThe Emigrants\u003c\/i\u003e and Jane Campion's film \u003ci\u003eThe Piano\u003c\/i\u003e, are exemplary for our contemporary scene. Nevertheless, the straightforward assumptions about justice, divine and state power, the good, and identity politics that every reader or viewer inevitably comes upon are disrupted when one takes into account the role of language: both the way in which language is talked about and the way in which it performs. What emerges is a non-prescriptive ethics of another order that offers a resistance to power and simplistic conceptualizations of truth, an emancipation from the \"must-be\" that implies an ever-to-be-renewed renegotiation--a responsability that has much to do with the act of critique or interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carol Jacobs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804757904","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710664708233,"sku":"9780804757904","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_838f8282-09ae-4e83-a917-c11b46c0f270.jpg?v=1719541623","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/skirting-the-ethical-9780804757904","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}