Joseph Conrad and Ethics
Joseph Conrad and Ethics

Author: Columbia University Press

Publisher: Maria Curie-Skodowska University Press

Published: 2021-08-31

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9788322794579

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Joseph Conrad's ethical perspective is one of the deepest in twentieth-century fiction, yet it has been overlooked in recent scholarship. Joseph Conrad and Ethics is fully devoted to ethics in Conrad's fiction. It offers a thorough, in-depth analysis of Conrad's ethical reflection that challenges and extends current discussions.

Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals)
Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Allan Hunter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 131763795X

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First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind’s ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day. Allan Hunter establishes Conrad’s detailed knowledge of the leading evolutionary arguments of the period and the main questions posed: were ethics God-given or were morals merely an evolved attribute? His novels are shown as debates with, and extensions of, the theories of Huxley, Darwin, Carlyle, Spencer, Lombroso and others on the nature of humanity and altruism.

Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals)
Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Allan Hunter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-12

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781138794733

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First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind's ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day. Allan Hunter establishes Conrad's detailed knowledge of the leading evolutionary arguments of the period and the main questions posed: were ethics God-given or were morals merely an evolved attribute? His novels are shown as debates with, and extensions of, the theories of Huxley, Darwin, Carlyle, Spencer, Lombroso and others on the nature of humanity and altruism.

Conrad's Shadow
Conrad's Shadow

Author: Nidesh Lawtoo

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2016-09-01

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1628952768

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Western thought has often dismissed shadows as fictional, but what if fictions reveal original truths? Drawing on an anti-Platonic tradition in critical theory, Lawtoo adopts ethical, anthropological, and philosophical lenses to offer new readings of Joseph Conrad’s novels and the postcolonial and cinematic works that respond to his oeuvre. He argues that Conrad’s fascination with doubles urges readers to reflect on the two sides of mimesis: one side is dark and pathological, and involves the escalation of violence, contagious epidemics, and catastrophic storms; the other side is luminous and therapeutic, and promotes communal survival, postcolonial reconciliation, and plastic adaptations to changing environments. Once joined, the two sides reveal Conrad as an author whose Janus-faced fictions are powerfully relevant to our contemporary world of global violence and environmental crisis.

Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals)
Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Allan Hunter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1317637968

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First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind’s ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day. Allan Hunter establishes Conrad’s detailed knowledge of the leading evolutionary arguments of the period and the main questions posed: were ethics God-given or were morals merely an evolved attribute? His novels are shown as debates with, and extensions of, the theories of Huxley, Darwin, Carlyle, Spencer, Lombroso and others on the nature of humanity and altruism.

Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad

Author: George A. Panichas

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780881460636

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Examines the morality expressed in the fictional writing of Joseph Conrad, discussing "The Secret Agent," "Lord Jim," "Nostromo," "Heart of Darkness," and other works, and describing Conrad's vision of the human world.

Joseph Conrad's tragic moral paradoxes
Joseph Conrad's tragic moral paradoxes

Author: Athanasius A. Ayuk

Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan

Published: 2013-06-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 2296537634

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In this scholarly book, Dr A. Ayuk raises issues of existential concerns in Conrad's major fiction. It's a refreshing interpretation of Conrad's works, a major contribution to not only the novelist's moral and philosophical vision of man in the early 20th century but also the psycho-complexity of human experience of our day.