Fables of responsibility
Subtitle: aberrations and predicaments in ethics and politics
By: Thomas Keenan.
Series: Meridian : crossing aesthetics; Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Political ethics.; Democracy.; Responsibility.; Politics and literature.; Deconstruction.
Description: The book is driven by a sense that literary and theoretical questions, and the ideas or concepts they appeal to or provoke, play a critical role in the way we think about and experience politics, but that literary critics and theorists do far too little to understand those links or make them matter outside a very restricted sphere.

The author seeks to harness this specialized discourse in order to consider what ethical and political thinking might learn from literature and its theorists; from the difficult burdens that literature places on its readers and the unusual transformations it can enact in our language, the very medium of our shared life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-243) and index.