Ethics, Aesthetics & the Beyond of Language

Explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn to art when writing about ethics. Sleepy Hollow: fearful pleasures and the nightmare of history Lacan and the beyond of language: from art to ethics Brown's Wieland and the ethical circumscription of death Heideggerian ethics: the voice of art and the call to being Levinas: art and the transcendence of solitude Endings: ethics, enigma, and address in The marble faun Riven: Badiou's ethical subject and the event of art as trauma