The Enigma of Good and Evil: The Moral Sentiment in Literature (Analecta Husserliana)

Front Matter....Pages 1-3
Death, Truth, and Sinfulness: Of Various Characters and Scenes in Ramón del Valle-Inclán’s Comedias bárbaras....Pages 227-271
Accusation, Betrayal and Murder in Literature....Pages 273-282
Autobiography and the Impossibility of Evil in Kurt H. Wolff’s Existential Sociology....Pages 283-308
Adventures in Greeneland: The Moral Sentiment in Three Novels of Graham Greene....Pages 309-316
On the Fourfold Ontology of Evil Throughout Western Tradition and its Final Disappearance in the Present Time....Pages 317-363
Searching for the Abandoned Soul: Dostoevsky on the Suffering of Humanity....Pages 367-398
Reading Achille Mizzi: A Phenomenological Hermeneutics of the Christian Narrative....Pages 399-415
A Question of Interest? Between Good and Evil in Instinto de Ines by Carlos Fuentes....Pages 5-15
Being’s Wound: Evil and Explanation in the Killer Inside Me ....Pages 17-28
A Paradox of Love: The Manifestation of Life and the Moral Sentiment in Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s Her Son’s Wife ....Pages 29-46
Levinas’s Language....Pages 47-62
 Sympathy for the Devil ? A Historical Tour of Literature and Cultural Representation....Pages 65-76
Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling : An Experiment in the Self-Recognition of Evil....Pages 77-90
Beyond Evil in Heart of Darkness : Levinasian Face-to-Face as Reliable Narration....Pages 91-118
Bartleby’s Existential Reduction and Its Impact on Others....Pages 119-138
The Intuition of Good/Evil in Marcel Proust’s à la Recherche du Temps Perdu : From the Axis of Time to the Axis of Desire....Pages 141-161
The Changing Landscapes of Good and Evil in the Moral World of Huckleberry Finn ....Pages 163-170
Nature and a Calm Mirror: Anna Maria Ortese’s Ethics....Pages 171-190
The Interplay of Virtue and Romantic Ethics in Chang-Rae Lee’s a Gesture Life ....Pages 191-205
Camus’ Meursault and Sartrian Irresponsibility....Pages 207-223
Front Matter....Pages 1-3
Gilles Deleuze et la Littérature: Le Langage, la Vie et la Doctrine du Jugement....Pages 417-432
Culture and the Philosophy of Life: The True, the Good, the Beautiful, and the Sacred....Pages 433-441
The Phenomenology of Ethical Criticism: How Literature Affects Ethical Development....Pages 445-454
Moral Sentiment and the Ethics of Representation in Holocaust Literature....Pages 455-471
The Aesthetics of Salvation in Sartre’s Nausea ....Pages 473-489
“With Foolish Shadows, With Hollow Signs”: A Reflection on Subjective Perception and Personal Identity in Hispano-American Golden Age Intrigue Comedies....Pages 491-516
The Medicine-Dreams of Chief Plenty-Coups: A Study in Phenomenological Anthropology....Pages 517-549
Front Matter....Pages 551-554
Searching Moral Standards in a Love Diatribe....Pages 555-562
Bizet’s Carmen ....Pages 563-563
In Search of Moral Standards — Walker Percy’s Lancelot ....Pages 565-571
In Search of a Moral Erotic Standard: Female Subjectivity and Eros in Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s Rough-Hewn and The Brimming Cup ....Pages 573-583
Morals in History. Violence and the Ideal of Peace....Pages 587-601
Phantom Relations and the Writer’s Niche in Paul Auster’s Leviathan ....Pages 603-618
Some Freedom Within a Small Range: Tagore on Moral Standard....Pages 619-623
The Search for a Universal Standard of Morality: Filial Piety and its Chinese Experience....Pages 627-641
In First Century Rome: A Test Case of Literary Influence on Ethical Development....Pages 643-654
Literature and the Play of Attention: A New/Ancient Look at the Roots of Evil....Pages 655-673
Dostoyevsky on the Problem of Evil....Pages 675-699
Poetry in the Cerebral Cortex, The Nervous System and the Digestive Tracts: A Study of Romanus Egudu’S Moral Poetry....Pages 701-708
Asymmetry and Normativity: Levinas Reading Dostoyevsky on Desire, Responsibility, and Suffering....Pages 709-726
Front Matter....Pages 551-554
The Redemptive Gestures of the Poetry of Wisława Szymborska....Pages 729-748
A Life Beyond Go(O)D: A Criticism of Wisdom and the Foundation of a Poetic Conception of Life Based on Goethe’s Faust ....Pages 749-785
Antigone’s (Re)Turn: The Ēthos of the “Coming Community”....Pages 787-811
“I Know Everything”: The Governess’s Failures of Consciousness in the Turn of the Screw ....Pages 813-829
The Politics of Intersubjectivity and the Logic of Discourse....Pages 831-843
Literature as the Laboratory of the Moral Life: Building Moral Communities through Literary Study....Pages 845-863