Reading ethics

Does the reader face moral responsibility through reading a novel or poem or philosophical book? If reading is indeed an act or something that works or accomplishes, will it in turn lead to doing another action? How does the behavior of the reader differ after reading a book? To whom or to what is the reader obligated? To the read text or to what is around it at that moment? Would the obligation be to students if the reader is a teacher or to the institution that borrowed it or borrowed it for teaching? Or is the reader obligated to a larger group or to society as a whole in the act that follows reading? From a deconstructive reading perspective, Miller responds to the current widespread interest today that links literature with society, history, and politics, but here in this book, he studies the moral aspect in literary study, through engagement with philosophical and literary texts by major authors such as Kant, George Eliot, and Henry James. And this is a domain that deconstructive critics have not discussed. This book significantly contributes to raising such questions in the program of serious discussion.