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Join an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion of literary ethics to explore questions about the relationship between ethics and literature, such as:

• What is ethical criticism? What’s wrong with it? What’s right? Can criticism ever not be ethical? Should it (try to) be?
• What’s “ethics and literature” about anyway? Does it have a point? Does it need to have one?
• Is ethics and literature, ethics? Or literature? Or … both? Neither?
• How does “ethics and literature” relate to “law and literature”? Law and literature is often said to come in two flavours: “law in literature” and “law as literature”? What’s that distinction about and is there a similar distinction in ethics and literature?
• Does reading make us more ethical? Is reading itself an ethical act? Writing? Translating?

Suggested background reading: (1) Mark Kingwell, The Ethics of Ethics and Literature; (2) Richard Posner, Against Ethical Criticism

Presenter:

• Mark Kingwell, Philosophy, University of Toronto

Discussants:

• Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Latin American & Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
• Vida Panitch, Philosophy, Carleton University; Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
• Emma Planinc, Political Science, University of Toronto
• Simon Stern, Law & English, University of Toronto; Co-Director, Centre for Innovation Law & Policy

When: February 7, 2017, 4:15-6PM
Where: Centre for Ethics, 200 Larkin (@ Trinity College), 15 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto

Tue, Feb 7, 2017
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place