O16-16. Ethics and Literature
Time: Jul 13, 2022 03:30 PM Beijing
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I will cover the three basic ethical theories: virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and Kantian ethics, and try to see how they can help with reading and interpreting literature. I will then move to the modern reduction of ethics to power by Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. How has reading that lacks ethics faired what are their strong and not strong attributes? Finally, I will look at modern renditions of ethics in Badiou and how he interprets literature.
Ari Ofengenden
Professor of Practice
Department of Jewish Studies
Tulane University
Series editor, books in comparative cultural studies ccsbks@purdue.edu
Purdue University Press
Elected Member European Academy of Sciences and Arts
