The Ethics of Reading: Kant, De Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin
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Argues that the act of reading is an independently ethical act through an analysis of a number of passages from Kant and de Man in order to sketch out the ground of the topic and then of texts in which George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Henry James read themselves.
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