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Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics

Thomas Keenan
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In this paper, the authors discuss literature and democracy, including the impossibility of justice and the paradox of knowledge and power in the no man's land - ideology, between ethics and politics.
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Introduction: literature and democracy 1. Left to our own devices: on the impossibility of justice Part I. Fables: 2. Examples of responsibility: Aesop, with philosophy 3. Freedom, the law of another fable: Sade's insurrection Part II. Rhetoric: 4. The point is to (ex)change it: reading capital rhetorically 5. The 'paradox' of knowledge and power: Foucault on the bias Conclusion: no man's land - ideology, between ethics and politics Notes Index.

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