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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Good reading

the ethics of Christian literary theory

Cassandra Falke(Phenomenology and Bodies of Knowledge , Universitetet i Tromsø)

pp. 46-56

Abstract

Over the last decade, critical theory has taken what some have called an ethical turn, a turn away from poststructuralist play and back to questions of ethical representation, ethical conceptions of beauty, and ethical ideas of the self. New ethical criticism invokes two themes consistently: the body as a site of empathy and the communal self. This chapter investigates the way these two themes are handled in the New Testament and proposes that New Testament paradigms of the bodily and communal self provide sites for productive engagement between secular searches for ethical literary theories and Christian scholarship.

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Falke Cassandra (2010) Intersections in Christianity and critical theory. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 46-56

DOI: 10.1057/9780230294684_5

Full citation:

Falke Cassandra (2010) „Good reading: the ethics of Christian literary theory“, In: C. Falke (ed.), Intersections in Christianity and critical theory, Dordrecht, Springer, 46–56.