FPF:UBKC0123 Literature and ethics - Course Information
UBKC0123 Literature and ethics
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaSummer 2022
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Jan Heczko, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Jan Heczko, Ph.D.
Institute of The Czech Language and Library Science – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- UBKC0123/A: Wed 14:45–16:20 H2, J. Heczko
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Czech Literature (programme FPF, B7310 Filo)
- Course objectives
- This seminar will introduce students to the discussions and debates that have comprised the so-called "turn to ethics" in literary criticism over the past two decades. Students will come away from this course with an understanding of at least two of the major impulses within criticism's turn to ethics. One of these orientations emphasizes the role of literature as a repository of values and an agent of moral edification (e.g. Booth, Nussbaum), while the other views literature as the occasion of an encounter with an intractable otherness that cannot be subsumed within presupposed values and conventional standards of conduct (e.g. Derrida, Hillis Miller).
- Syllabus
- Law, morality, ethics. Current critique of ethical essentialism.
Arts and / versus morality, ethics and / versus literature: historical overview I.
Arts and / versus morality, ethics and / versus literature: historical overview II.
Other voices. Cultural alterity.
Giving voice to what can not speak. Controlling voices, silenced voices.
Against ethical criticism.
Author's and reader's responsibility.
The ethical dimension of speech acts (J. L. Austin).
Aesthetics and ethics (P. Ricoeur).
Ethics of reading and interpretation. Ethical turn in criticism (J. Derrida, J. Hillis Miller)
Singularity of work, singularity of its reception (D. Attridge).
We read for life (Martha C. Nussbaum).
- Law, morality, ethics. Current critique of ethical essentialism.
- Literature
- required literature
- RICOEUR, P. Čas a vyprávění III. Praha, 2008. info
- NÜNNING, A. (ed.). Lexikon teorie literatury a kultury. Brno, 2006. info
- GEORGE, K. Stephen. (ed.). Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader. Lanham, 2005. info
- DERRIDA, J. Síla zákona. Praha, 2002. info
- RICOEUR, P. Myslet a věřit. Praha, 2000. info
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period. - Teacher's information
- Activity in seminars. Essay on a given topic.
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2022, recent)
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