Writing and the Moral Self

List of contents

Part 1: The Ethics of Language 1. Strunk, White, and Grammar as Morality 2. Pre-Literacy, Post-Literacy, and the Cunning of History 3. The Rights of Black English 4. Anti-Anti-Obscenity 5. Politics and the New History of Truth 6. Pronouns and Affirmative Action Part 2: Rewriting in the Academy 7. Academics and the English Language 8. The New Scholasticism 9. The Humanities in American Life 10. Tolerance and Its Discontents: Teaching the Holocaust 11. About the Dead, Speak _Only _Mainly _Some _No Good 12. Normal Academic Progress Part 3: Politics at More Than Its Word 13. Politics and the Death of Language: Orwell’s Newspeak 14. Virtue as a Literary Form: Orwell’s Art 15. Human Nature and Political Artifact 16. The Body Impolitic: Thinking Thoreau 17. Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Evil 18. Language and Genocide

Summary

Originally published in 1991, this book analyses the relation between writing and ethics in a number of social contexts – in politics, in the university, in daily social practice, and finally in the ethical structure of language itself.

Product details

• Authors: Berel Lang, Lang Berel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367491604
• ISBN: 978-0-367-49160-4
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; PHILOSOPHY / General, Discourse Analysis, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, Sociolinguistics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics