Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Beyond of Language

Explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn to art when writing about ethics. This book explores the relationship between literature and ethics, showing how literature and art work to open up a part of ethics that resists traditional philosophy. Focusing on three American Romantic texts-Wieland, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and The Marble Faun-Robert Hughes demonstrates how each dramatizes the ethical, psychological, and existential imperative to put the e