Romancing Ethics in Boethius, Chaucer, and Lévinas : Fortune, Moral Luck, and Erotic Adventure
- Author / Editor
- Mitchell, J. Allan.
Romancing Ethics in Boethius, Chaucer, and Lévinas : Fortune, Moral Luck, and Erotic Adventure
- Published
- Comparative Literature 57.2 (2005): 101-16.
- Description
- Emmanuel Lévinas's "Time and the Other" indicates how Fortune or contingency is constitutive of ethics in Chaucer's TC. In contrast to Boethian readings of TC, a Lévinasian reading shows how Troilus's subjection to love and his passivity before an uncertain future - not his autonomy or agency - make him a figure of the ethical human. TC also provides a way of evaluating Lévinas's medievalism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.