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Siebers, Tobin Anthony was born on January 29, 1953 in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Harold Joseph and Marion Josephine (Jansen) Siebers.
(Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentia...)
Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of current theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and the attitudes fostered by the approaches. Building on analyses of the moral legacies of Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud, Siebers identifies the various fronts on which the concerns of critical theory impinge on those of ethics.
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Tobin Siebers exposes the role of superstition in unexpected areas of modern life. Combining literary and anthropological insights, his radical interpretations cast new light on the history of narcissism, the worldwide belief in the evil eye, Freud's theories of the uncanny and the role played by ethnocentrism in our view nonwestern peoples.
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(In Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism, Tob...)
In Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the skepticism, suspicion, and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in debates about the divided self, linguistic indeterminacy, the metaphysics of presence, multiculturalism, canon formation, power, cultural literacy, and the politics of literature. The major critical movements of the postwar age, Siebers argues, belong to three dominant phases of the Cold War era. The age of charismatic leadership characterized by Churchill, FDR, Stalin, and Hitler lies behind the preoccupation with "intention," "affect," and "impersonality" found in the New Criticism. The age of propaganda motivates the fascination with the guiles of language, undecidability, and deconstruction. The age of superpowers provides the dominant metaphor in the new historicism's analysis of the technology of power. All three ages of criticism reflect the skepticism of the Cold War mentality, and this skepticism, Siebers posits, has impaired the ability of literary theorists to talk about the politics of criticism in an effective way. A trenchant analysis of postwar theory, Siebers's work presents a new view of the politics of criticism and a surprising vision of what theory must do if it is to enter the post Cold War era successfully.
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Siebers, Tobin Anthony was born on January 29, 1953 in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Harold Joseph and Marion Josephine (Jansen) Siebers.
Bachelor, University of Wisconsin, 1975; Master of Arts, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1976; Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1980.
Fellow and assistant professor romance languages, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1980-1983; assistant Professor of English and comparative literature, Columbia University, New York City, 1983-1986; associate Professor of English and comparative literature, University of Michigan, 1986-1989; visiting scholar, Ecole Polytechnic, Paris, 1988-1989, 93-94; Professor of English and comparative literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1989.
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Member Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association.
Married Jill Robin Greenblatt, August 1, 1981. Children: Claire, Pierce.