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"THE BALANCE OF SEPARATENESS AND COMMUNICATION": COSMOPOLITAN ETHICS IN GEORGE ELIOT'S "DANIEL DERONDA"
Ist Teil von
ELH, 2012-06, Vol.79 (2), p.389-416
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Together, the image of an "added soul" in the first citation, and the juxtaposition in the second citation of a distinctly Jewish consciousness with wide-ranging sympathies and instruction, suggest to Appiah that Daniel has not replaced one form of responsibility with another, but has joined together the particular and universal responsibilities that are both implied in any genuinely cosmopolitan ethics.4 In making these points about Daniel Deronda, Appiah is less interested in understanding Eliot's ethical project as such than in using the novel to illustrate a more general point about cosmopolitanism. For one, it makes a strong case that Daniel's moral education over the course of the novel should not be understood as a flat-out rejection of cosmopolitanism in favor of Jewish nationalism, as Catherine Gallagher has argued.5 It specifies that Daniel's trajectory must rather be read as a movement from a simpler, impartial cosmopolitanism, one that regards all human beings as equal and as equally deserving of care, to a more nuanced, partial cosmopolitanism, one that remains sensitive to the suffering and needs of all human beings even while focusing its primary attention and care upon a select few.6 The benefit of this shift, as noted by Appiah and as expounded at length in the novel itself, is practical.