Getting It Right
Language, Literature, and Ethics

254 pages
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6 x 9
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© 1992
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Ethics and Its Others
1. The Discourse of the Other and Other Discourses
2. Incoherence and the Ethical Mode of Presentation
3. Double Agent, Double Duty
4. Morality and the Chain of Command
Chapter 2. Language and Ethics, From the Beginning
1. Language and the Decay of Value
2. From Agency to Relation
3. Language as Resistance
4. Language from the Ethical Point of View, with Examples from Wittgenstein and de Man
Chapter 3. From Conversion to Analysis
1. Conversion, Pain, and Pleasure
2. Psychoanalysis and the Ethic of the Mind
3. The Ethics of Analysis
Chapter 4. Getting It Right: The Story of Creation
1. The Narrative Imperative
2. Abroad only by a Fiction: Creation, Irony, and Necessity in Conrad's The Secret Agent
Works Cited Index
Introduction
Chapter 1. Ethics and Its Others
1. The Discourse of the Other and Other Discourses
2. Incoherence and the Ethical Mode of Presentation
3. Double Agent, Double Duty
4. Morality and the Chain of Command
Chapter 2. Language and Ethics, From the Beginning
1. Language and the Decay of Value
2. From Agency to Relation
3. Language as Resistance
4. Language from the Ethical Point of View, with Examples from Wittgenstein and de Man
Chapter 3. From Conversion to Analysis
1. Conversion, Pain, and Pleasure
2. Psychoanalysis and the Ethic of the Mind
3. The Ethics of Analysis
Chapter 4. Getting It Right: The Story of Creation
1. The Narrative Imperative
2. Abroad only by a Fiction: Creation, Irony, and Necessity in Conrad's The Secret Agent
Works Cited Index
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