Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 9 December 2024
- ISBN 9781032660677
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 Illustrations, black & white; 7 Halftones, black & white 669
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Short description:
Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics addresses the philosophical issues in Ishiguro?s fiction, shedding light on the moral condition of his characters: their agency, responsibility and commitment to the good. It investigates his engagement with Platonic and modern philosophy, and his use of cross-cultural myths and allegories.
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Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics addresses the philosophical issues that lie at the heart of Ishiguro?s fiction, shedding light on the moral condition of his characters ? their sense of responsibility and pride in service, their attempts at self-determination and the value they assign to loyalty, love and friendship. Ethics in Ishiguro?s work is structured around the tension between the limits of the characters? agency and their striving towards the good. Ishiguro?s novels are shown to tackle fundamental questions posed by ancient Greek philosophers, especially Plato, and modern Western ones, from Adam Smith through Jean-Paul Sartre to Martha Nussbaum. What is the human soul? What is dignity? What does it mean to be human? These issues are expressed in his narrative world through the universal and timeless language of myths, allegories and images that are both ancient and modern as well as cross-cultural.
Deftly exploring its philosophical underpinnings, Laura Colombino?s incisive study addresses a central question in Ishiguro?s work: how to live ethically in a politically perilous and psychologically obdurate world. Colombino offers a profound meditation on Ishiguro?s career-long unflinching investigation of this most compelling of unresolved questions.
? Andrew Bennett, Professor of English, University of Bristol, UK
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List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Ishiguro?s ethical, existential and emotional worlds
1. What is a Good Life? The Remains of the Day as an aporetic dialogue on dignity
2. Wounded Idealists Travel the World: Anxiety, Responsibility and Retribution in The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans
3. Not at Home in the World: Longing for the Possible and Caring for the Other in Never Let Me Go
4. Ethics, Myth and the Narrative Voice in The Buried Giant
5. The Soul?s Desire for the Good: Heliotropic Mythology and Anamorphic Mirrors in Klara and the Sun
Coda: Ethics and the Arena of Conflicting Emotions
Index
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