"Skirting the Ethical" offers highly original readings of six
works, each noted for its politico-ethical stance. The first four
(Sophocles' "Antigone," Plato's "Symposium" and "Republic" and
Hamann's "Aesthetica in nuce") have a recognized and honored place
in the canon. The last two, Sebald's "The Emigrants" and Jane
Campion's film "The Piano," are exemplary for our contemporary
scene. Nevertheless, the straightforward assumptions about justice,
divine and state power, the good, and identity politics that every
reader or viewer inevitably comes upon are disrupted when one takes
into account the role of language: both the way in which language
is talked about and the way in which it performs. What emerges is a
non-prescriptive ethics of another order that offers a resistance
to power and simplistic conceptualizations of truth, an
emancipation from the "must-be" that implies an ever-to-be-renewed
renegotiation--a responsability that has much to do with the act of
critique or interpretation.
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