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Journal Article
'Let me look again': The Moral Philosophy and Literature Debate at 40
2024
Overview
This article explores the relationship between ethics and literature, particularly as it has been conceived in academic debates since the early 1980s. It offers a reconciliation of the dichotomy between literature and moral philosophy through the concept of bifocality : writing that responds to the moral demands of a lived reality in both a philosophical and literary way. I suggest that bifocal writing is often found in works of testimony. Primo Levi's 1986 work The Drowned and the Saved , a collection of essays on the significance of the Holocaust, is then presented as an arch example.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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