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Ethical Vision and Bifocal Writing in the Twentieth Century: Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin

Murphy, RuthUniversity of Cambridge2024

… historical, and, crucially, testimonial. Bifocality, I argue, encapsulates much of what Murdoch and Nussbaum thought ethical writing should be; their hopes for a more literary philosophy are therefore put into practice in my approach to the central texts. The first chapter of the thesis …

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