Tobin Siebers
Author
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
1. Aufl.
Description
Je mehr wir in der Moderne ankommen, umso stärker wirkt die Gleichung zwischen Kunst und Behinderung - bis Kunst kaum mehr ohne den Schatten der Behinderung wahrgenommen werden kann. Tatsächlich ist diese Gleichung so stark, dass wir Schwierigkeiten haben, Kunstwerke der Vergangenheit nicht nach Maßgabe moderner Bilder von Behinderung zu sehen.Die Essays von Tobin Siebers konzipieren dagegen Kunst als einen Bereich, in dem Behinderung einen eigenständigen...
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and the attitudes fostered by the approaches. Building on analyses of the moral legacies of Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud, Siebers identifies the various...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
1. Aufl.
Description
Which theoretical and methodological approaches of contemporary cultural criticism resonate within the field of disability studies? What can cultural studies gain by incorporating disability more fully into its toolbox for critical analysis? Culture - Theory - Disability features contributions by leading international cultural disability studies scholars which are complemented with a diverse range of responses from across the humanities spectrum.This...