Heavy Body: Narrative Weave of Modernity Ethics

Author: Liu Xiaofeng
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: How exactly did the figure of the French Revolution, Danton, die? What was his relationship with the prostitute Marion? What was the entanglement between the fly and his lover, as well as the lover of his lover? What does the contrast between the physical fullness of Kajia and Sabina and the physical heaviness of Alette and Therese illustrate? What do the ethical issues of honesty, lies, friendship, family love, and guilt that the "Ten Commandments" seeks to express mean to us? What do these intellectual giants like Büchner, Kundera, and Kieslovsky bring us? With his elegant and fluent writing style and insightful perspectives, author Liu Xiaofeng retells a thought-provoking and even thrilling story, leading us to contemplate life. The so-called modern ethical theory refers to the ethics of the people and the ethics of individual freedom. Nowadays, people are involuntarily shedding the ethics of the people and turning toward the ethics of individual freedom. The narrative thread of this book shifts from the ethics of the people to the ethics of free individuals, primarily focusing on the narratives of two contemporary Central European writers to explore the differences between two distinct forms of individual freedom ethics.