Table of Contents
Preface: Fidelity to the Unruly
Derek Attridge on the Ethical Debates in Literary Studies
The Jolt of the Grotesque: Aesthetics as Ethics in The Satanic Verses
Ethics and Irony
“Should Poetry Be Ethical or Otherwise?”
The Ethics of Truth: Ethical Criticism in the Wake of Badiou’s Philosophy
How to Live with Roland Barthes
Foucault’s Ethical Ars Erotica
Illusionism and the Self-Deceiving “I”
Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony (review)