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25 mars 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.9725
- isbn: 9782367810201
- eisbn: 9782367813899
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Moral philosophy Science, Moral Morals Ethics, Primitive Philosophy, Moral Morality Deontology Ethology Moral ideas Religion and ethics Biography--Character Knowledge--Ethics moraleCiter ce document
Nowell Smith David, « ‘I hold it towards you’: Alterity in Lyric Address », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.9725
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This essay examines the ethical implications of address as a trope in ‘lyric’ poetry, and especially those aspects of address analysed in recent work by Jonathan Culler and Derek Attridge. Focusing on John Keats’s fragment ‘This living hand,’ I note that this poem traces a similar movement to much phenomenological ethics, where moral judgement is superseded by an ethics of alterity. However, following Heidegger’s account of uncanniness, I argue that this alterity pertains not simply to the poem’s address to its audience, but also to its address to itself and its own verse medium.