Literature, ethics, and aesthetics
Subtitle: applied Deleuze and Guattari
By: Sabrina Achilles
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230340893
Subjects: Philosophy; Literature; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics; Literature and morals; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Constructivism (Philosophy)
Description: "This book is a conceptualization of the literary aesthetic in relation to ethics, in particular, an ethics for a concern for the Self. Bringing Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's constructivist thinking into a practical domain, Sabrina Achilles rethinks the ways in which literature is understood and taught. Through an interdisciplinary approach, literature is viewed from the position of a problem without any pre-given frame"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the literary function; title: Being constructivist; title: Rethinking the performative in pragmatics; title: The literary function and the cartographic turn: performative philosophy; title: The literary function and society, I: affirmation of immanent aesthetics; title: The literary function and society, II: community and subjectification; title: The reader and the event of fiction; title: Conclusion: degrees of freedom.