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Ethical Issues in Twentieth Century French Fiction

Killing the Other

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  • © 2000

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  1. Colin Davis

    1. Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Ethical Criticism

    • Colin Davis
    Pages 1-11

  3. Otherness, Altericide

    • Colin Davis
    Pages 12-30

  4. Hermeneutic and Ethical Encounters: Gadamer and Levinas

    • Colin Davis
    Pages 31-46

  5. Ethics, Fiction, and the Death of the Other: Sartre and Kant

    • Colin Davis
    Pages 47-63

  6. Camus, Encounters, Reading

    • Colin Davis
    Pages 64-85

  7. Didacticism and the Ethics of Failure: Beauvoir

    • Colin Davis
    Pages 86-107

  8. Humanism and its Others: Sartre, Heidegger, Yourcenar

    • Colin Davis
    Pages 108-130

  9. Ethical Indifference: Duras

    • Colin Davis
    Pages 131-151

  10. Readers, Others: Genet

    • Colin Davis
    Pages 152-188

  11. Conclusion: Tarrying with the Negative

    • Colin Davis
    Pages 189-195

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 196-228
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About this book

This book examines ethical problems raised by a number of key twentieth-century theoretical and fictional texts by authors such as Levinas, Sartre, Beauvoir, Yourcenar, Duras and Genet. It argues that even texts which apparently espouse ethical positions based on respect for and responsibility towards others, frequently depict conflict as an insurmountable aspect of human relations. This is reflected at an aesthetic level, as these texts both describe the struggle for supremacy and replicate it in their relation to their readers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK

    Colin Davis

About the author

Colin Davis is Reader in French Literature at Oxford University, and Fellow and Tutor in French at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

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