COURSE SCHEDULE
March 30
1. Introduction: overview of the course.
April 6
2. Ethics and postmodern condition – historical background
- Zygmunt Bauman, Postmodern Ethics. Blackwell, 1993.
- Jean Paul Sartre, "Bad faith" (fragment from Being and Nothingness), in Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings, ed. by Stephen Priest. London and New York: Routledge, 2001 (see also: readings)
- Thomas C. Anderson, “Freedom, the Ultimate Value in Sartrean Ethics” and “Social Dimension of the Value of Freedom,” in his, The Foundation and Structure of Sartrean Ethics. Lawrence: The Regents Press of Kansas , 1979.
April 13
3. The Ethical Turn in the social sciences and humanities and ups and downs of Ethical Criticism
- Lawrence Buell, "In Pursuit of Ethics". PMLA, vol. 114, no 1, January 1999.
- Michael Eskin, "The Double 'Turn' to Ethics and Literature?" Poetics Today, vol. 25, no 4, Winter 2004.
- Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory, ed. Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001 (Preface, Daniel Schwarz "A Humanistic Ethics of Reading", Wayne C. Booth, "Why Ethical Criticism Can Never be Simple", Martha C. Nussbaum, "Exactly and Responsibility"; Kathleen Lundeen, "What Has the Right to Feel?"; Margaret Urban Walker "Moral Repair and its Limits").
- Robert Eaglestone, Ethical Criticism: Reading After Levinas. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997 (chapter 1: "Ethics and the End of Criticism")
- Simmone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity (see: readings)
April 20
4. Ethics and aesthetics
- Wolfgang Welsch, Undoing Aesthetics, transl. by Andrew Inpkin. London: Sage, 1997 (chapters: 1-4)
- Art and Morality, ed. by Jose Luis Bermudez and Sebastian Gardner. London and New York: Routledge, 2003 (introduction, Matthew Kieran "Forbidden Knowledge"; Colin Lyas, "Art, expression and morality")
- Richard Kearney, "Levinas and the Ethics of Imagining", in Between Ethics and Aesthetics. Crossing the Boundaries, ed. by Dorota Glowacka and Stephen Boos. New York: State University of New York Press, 2002.
- Marshall Gregory, „Ethical criticism: what it is and why it matters”. Style, Summer 1998.
April 27
5. Ethics and art
- Ella Peek, “Ethical criticism of Art”, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Berys Gaut, “Art and ethics," in The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, ed. by Berys Gaut and Dominick McIover Lopes. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.
- Matthew Kieran, "Art and Morality," in his Revealing Art. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.
- Unsettling "Sensation." Arts-Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy, ed. by Lawrence Rothfield. Rutgers University Press, 2001 (Lawrence Rothfield, "Introduction. The Interests in 'Sensation';" W.J.T. Mitchell, "Offending Images.")
- Aesthetics and Ethics , ed. by J. Levinson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
May 4
6. Ethics and the Other
- Emmanuel Lévinas, Totality and Infinity: an Essay on Exteriority. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1979 (fragments)
- ---, Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1981 (fragments)
- Renee van de Vall, "Touching the Face: The Ethics of Visuality between Levinas and a Rembrandt Self-Portraits," in Compelling Visuality. The Work of Art in and out of History, ed. by Claire Farago and Robert Zwijnenberg. Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
- Ronald Bogue, Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts. New York and London: Routledge, 2003 (chapter 4: "Faces")
- Robert Burggraeve, "Violence and the Vulnerable Face of the Other." Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 30, no 1, Spring 1999.
- Alain Badiou, Ethics. An Essay on the Understanding of Evil. London, New York: Verso, 2002.
May 11
7. Ethics and memory
- Avishai Margalit, The Ethics of Memory. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2002.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, “Guilt, Bad Conscience and Related Matters, in his, On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale. New York: Vintage Books, 1967.
- Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958, chapter V, & 33 and 34.
- Paul Ricoeur "Memory and Forgetting" in Questioning Ethics. Debates in Contemporary Philosophy, Richard Kearney and Mark Dooley (eds). London: Routledge, 1999.
- Jacques Derrida, “Le siècle et le pardon.” Le Monde des Débats, no 9, Décembre 1999. [text onlie in English] transl. into English (minus the interviewer's questions) as Jacques Derrida, "On Forgiveness" (1999) in On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.
May 18
8. Feminist ethics
- Feminist ethics. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online)
- Elizabeth Porter, "Feminist Ethics," in her Feminist Perspectives on Ethics. London and New York: Longman, 1999.
- Nel Noddings, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education. University of California Press, 2003.
- Daryl Koehn, "An Ethics of Care," in her, Rethinking Feminist Ethics: Care, Trust and Empathy. London and New York: Routledge, 1998.
- Maurice Hamington, "The Landscape of Current Care Discourse," in her, Embodied Care: Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Feminist Ethics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
- An Ethic of Care: Feminist and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. by Mary Jeanne Larrabee. Routledge, 1992.
- Ruth E. Groenhout, "Levinas and Care Theory," in her, Connected Lives: Human Nature and an Ethics of Care. Lanham, Boulder, etc: Rowman and Littlefield Publishe, 2004.
May 25
9. Ethics in archaeology and anthropology
- Peter Pels, “Professions of Duplexity, A Prehistory of Ethical Codes in Anthropology.” Current Anthropology, vol. 40, no 2, April 1999.
- Anne-Marie Cantwell, "'Who Knows the Power of His Bones'. Reburial Redux," and Lynn Meskell, "The Practice and Politics of Archaeology in Egypt," in Ethics and Anthropology: Facing Future Issues in Human Biology, Globalism, and Cultural Property, ed. by Anne-Marie Cantwell, Eva Friedlander, Madeleine L. Tramm. New York, 2002.
- Anetta L. Cheek abd Bennie C, Keel, "Value Conflicts in Osteo-Archaeology" and Clement W. Meighan, "Archaeology: Science or Sacrilige?", in Ethics and Values in Archaeology, ed. by Ernestene L. Green. London: The Free Press, 1984.
- Embedding Ethics, ed. by Lynn Meskell and Peter Pels. Berg, 2005.
- Karen D. Vitelli , Archaeological Ethics. Altamira Press, 1996.
- Colin Renfrew, Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology. Gerald Duckworth & Company, 2001.
- Ethics in American Archaeology: Challenges for the 1990s, ed. by Alison Wylie and Mark J. Lynott. Society for American Archaeology, 1995.
June 1
10. Psychoanalysis as Ethical Criticism
- Melanie Klein, „Love, Hate and Reparation”, in Melanie Klein and Joan Riviere, Love, Hate and Reparation . New York and London: Norton,
- C. Fred Alford, Melanie Klein and Critical Social Theory: An Account of Politics, Art, and Reason Based on Her Psychoanalytic Theory. Yale University Press, 1989 (fragments)
- Hanna Segal, „Art and Depressive Position”, in her, Dream, Phantasy and Art . London , New York : Routledge, 1991.
- R. D. Hinshelwood, A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought. London : Free Association Books, 1989.
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