In a critical scene deeply troubled by questions of justice and responsibility, and beset by political and moral scandals, no issue in recent years has been more urgent or more unsettled than the question of ethics. Geoffrey Galt Harpham, whose previous book, The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism, was one of the first to announce the critical renewal of ethics, attempts in this new book to explain why ethical questions resist settlement. He urges a new account of ethics not as a stable set of principles, values, or prescriptions, but as a variable factor of "imperativity" immanent in language, analysis, narrative, and creation.
- ISBN10 0226316939
- ISBN13 9780226316932
- Publish Date 15 July 1992
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 10 December 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 254
- Language English