Ethics and the Political

This week’s readings were as interesting as they were challenging. I really enjoyed Moreiras on the thriller genre as ethical. The idea that a crime against another person is a suspension of ethics and that the thriller is an ethical response is interesting. Today at lunch Moreiras spoke a bit about the difference between radical evil and diabolical evil, in which radical evil is self interested, and diabolical evil is to hurt another person- which plays out in his discussion of the thriller as an ethical reaction, and his idea that moralism protects autonomy and not heteronomy. I’m not positive what he meant by every perspective through structural articulation is already an ethical perspective- I think this relates to the extraliterary within the literary? I was also interested in the way Moreiras writes about the ethical and the political. In his articles, the ethical undoes or deconstructs? the political and vice versa- the political undoes the ethical.