Table of contents

Acknowledgements

A question of interest?

Between good and evil in Instinto de Ines by Carlos Fuentes

Alira Ashvo-Muñoz

5-15

Being's wound

Evil and explanation in the killer inside me

Dorothy Clark

17-28

A paradox of love

The manifestation of life and the moral sentiment in Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Her son's wife

Annika Ljung-Baruth

29-46

Levinas's language

William Edelglass

47-62

Sympathy for the devil?

A historical tour of literature and cultural representation

Rebecca Painter

65-76

Kierkegaard's fear and trembling

An experiment in the self-recognition of evil

Andrew Jones-Cathcart

77-90

Beyond evil in heart of darkness

Levinasian face-to-face as reliable narration

Lewis Livesay

91-118

Bartleby's existential reduction and its impact on others

Richard Findler

119-138

The intuition of good/evil in Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu

From the axis of time to the axis of desire

Michel Dion

141-161

The changing landscapes of good and evil in the moral world of huckleberry finn

Bernadette Prochaska

163-170

Nature and a calm mirror

Anna Maria Ortese's ethics

Rosaria Trovato

171-190

The interplay of virtue and romantic ethics in Chang-Rae Lee's A gesture life

Megan Laverty

191-205

Camus' Meursault and Sartrian irresponsibility

Michael Daniels

207-223

Death, truth, and sinfulness

Of various characters and scenes in ramón del valle-inclán's comedias bárbaras

Jorge García-Gómez

227-271

Accusation, betrayal and murder in literature

Tony Afejuku

273-282

Autobiography and the impossibility of evil in Kurt H. Wolff's existential sociology

Gary Backhaus

283-308

Adventures in Greeneland

The moral sentiment in three novels of Graham Greene

George Tibbetts

309-316

On the fourfold ontology of evil throughout Western tradition and its final disappearance in the present time

Victor G. Rivas López

317-363

Searching for the abandoned soul

Dostoevsky on the suffering of humanity

Predrag Cicovacki

367-398

Reading Achille Mizzi

A phenomenological hermeneutics of the Christian narrative

Bernard Micallef

399-415

Gilles Deleuze et la littérature

Le langage, la vie et la doctrine du jugement

Alain Beaulieu

417-432

Culture and the philosophy of life

The true, the good, the beautiful, and the sacred

Lawrence Kimmel

433-441

The phenomenology of ethical criticism

How literature affects ethical development

Raymond J. Wilson

445-454

Moral sentiment and the ethics of representation in holocaust literature

Jennifer A. Gosetti-Ferencei

455-471

The aesthetics of salvation in Sartre's Nausea

Peter Weigel

473-489

"With foolish shadows, with hollow signs"

A reflection on subjective perception and personal identity in hispano-American golden age intrigue comedies

Victor G. Rivas López

491-516

The medicine-dreams of chief plenty-coups

A study in phenomenological anthropology

Gary Backhaus

517-549

Searching moral standards in a love diatribe

Alira Ashvo-Muñoz

555-562

Bizet's Carmen

Marlies Kronegger

563-564

In search of moral standards

Walker percy's lancelot

Bernadette Prochaska

565-571

In search of a moral erotic standard

Female subjectivity and eros in Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Rough-hewn and the brimming cup

Annika Ljung-Baruth

573-583

Morals in history

Violence and the ideal of peace

Lafuente Cecilia Lafuente

587-601

Phantom relations and the writer's niche in Paul Auster's Leviathan

Christopher Schreiner

603-618

Some freedom within a small range

Tagore on moral standard

Sitansu Ray

619-623

The search for a universal standard of morality

Filial piety and its Chinese experience

Tsung-I Dow

627-641

In first century Rome

A test case of literary influence on ethical development

Raymond J. Wilson

643-654

Literature and the play of attention

A new/ancient look at the roots of evil

Rebecca Painter

655-673

Dostoyevsky on the problem of evil

Peter Weigel

675-699

Poetry in the cerebral cortex, the nervous system and the digestive tracts

A study of Romanus Egudu's moral poetry

Tony Afejuku

701-708

Asymmetry and normativity

Levinas reading Dostoyevsky on desire, responsibility, and suffering

William Edelglass

709-726

The redemptive gestures of the poetry of Wisława Szymborska

Kristine Santilli

729-748

A life beyond Go(o)d

A criticism of wisdom and the foundation of a poetic conception of life based on Goethe's Faust

Victor G. Rivas López

749-785

Antigone's (re)turn

The ēthos of the "coming community"

Max Statkiewicz, Valérie REED

787-811

"I know everything"

The governess's failures of consciousness in The turn of the screw

Kenneth Kirby

813-829

The politics of intersubjectivity and the logic of discourse

Michael Daniels

831-843

Literature as the laboratory of the moral life

Building moral communities through literary study

Jerre Collins, John Zbikowski

845-863

Appendix: conference programs

Index of names