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Between Politics and Ethics: Toward a Vocative History of English Studies
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by James N. Comas
Sales Rank: 1864052
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 200 pages
Published by: Southern Illinois University PressEdition: 1st Edition edition March 30, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0809326922
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0809326921
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 14.4 ounces
Product Review
“Between Politics and Ethics develops a remarkable new way of engaging our intellectual past in its expansion of a sense of ethics in relation to historiography. James Comas simply offers one of the best examinations of ethics within the work of the humanities.”—Ronald Schleifer, George Lynn Cross Research Professor of English, University of Oklahoma
“Multifarious and ambitious, Between Politics and Ethics takes on the function and focuses that have belonged to rhetoric for twenty-five hundred years. With impeccable scholarship, Comas contributes to the vocative effort to shift the discussion from politics to ethics.”—Patricia Harkin, University of Illinois, Chicago, and former chair of the College Forum of the National Council of Teachers of English
Product Description
For nearly twenty-five years, English studies has been focused on two terms: politics and ethics. However, the institutional emergence, development, and relationship of these two concepts have yet to be examined. Between Politics and Ethics: Toward a Vocative History of English Studies traces the development of politics and ethics in contemporary English studies, questions the current political orientation of the discipline, and proposes a rethinking of the history of English studies based on a “vocative” dimension of writing—the idea that writers form a virtual community by “calling to” and listening to other writers.
In a series of interrelated discussions, James Comas looks at the historical trends leading to recent confusion regarding ethics and its relation to the politics of English studies. Through close, rhetorical readings of texts by Judith Butler, Stephen Greenblatt, Edward Said, and others, Comas argues that this confusion is largely the result of a “political turn” that resists theorizing itself. In addition, he argues that work on ethics by Wayne Booth, Geoffrey Harpham, and J. Hillis Miller reflects an uneasy dialectic between the ethics and politics of reading and writing. In response to this discord, Comas turns to the theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot, as well as to the examples of Georges Bataille and Kenneth Burke, and proposes a vocative approach to assessing English studies and its history. In doing so, this volume offers a thoughtful reassessment of English studies that affects our understanding of the rhetoric of disciplinary histories.
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