Writing and the Moral Self

by Berel Lang

Book Overview

Originally published in 1991, this book analyses the relation between writing and ethics in a number of social contexts - in politics, as language discloses its connections to the institutions of totalitarianism and democracy; in the university, as contemporary scholarly ideals find an uncomfortably accurate representation in the stylistic forms of academic writing; in daily social practice, ranging from the status of truth in journalistic writing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367491605
• ISBN13: 9780367491604
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages