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Casuistry in literature. --- Browning, Robert,

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A-t-on le droit de sacrifier une vie pour en sauver plusieurs ? Comment rendre justice quand il y a mort d'homme, mais ni responsables, ni coupables assignables ? Vaut-il mieux mourir pour ses idées que se compromettre ? Des questions de justice sociale aux nouveaux enjeux de la bioéthique ou du droit international, le débat moral s'invite sur tous les terrains. Mais la théorie de la justice ne peut pas tout : un scrupule, un souvenir, un doute peuvent survenir qui brouillent la réflexion.Parce qu'elle prend en charge la part des émotions et de l'imagination, la littérature offre ses propres ressources pour nous aider à répondre à la question récurrente : qu'est-il juste de faire ? Convoquant aussi bien des oeuvres classiques que des références populaires, de Victor Hugo au soldat Ryan de Spielberg en passant par Kafka, Melville ou Camus, cet essai nous plonge dans les grands dilemmes pour mettre au jour, sans jugement tranché ni solution de facilité, les ressorts de nos luttes intérieures.La littérature est le laboratoire des cas de conscience.

Littérature et morale. --- Casuistique. --- Choix moral. --- Conscience morale. --- Casuistry in literature --- Littérature et morale --- Casuistique --- Choix moral --- Conscience morale --- Casuistry in literature. --- Conscience in literature. --- Decision making --- Moral and ethical aspects.

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It is no accident that some variation of the question 'What should I do?' appears in over three-quarters of the comedic plays of the Spanish Golden Age. Casuistical dialogue was a concern, even an obsession, of Spanish playwrights during the seventeenth century, many of whom were educated by Jesuit casuists. Conscience on Stage is a study of casuistry or case morality as the foundation for a poetics of seventeenth-century Spanish comedias.Hilaire Kallendorf examines the Jesuit upbringing and casuistical education of major playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age, many of whom were also priests, and introduces the vocabulary of casuistry, as expressed in both confessors' manuals and in stage plays. Engaging issues of class, gender, and age to explore scenes of advice-giving and receiving, she demonstrates how the culture-specific construct of 'conscience' in early modern Spain can be recovered by means of a Foucauldian genealogy, which enlists the skills of philology at the service of a larger vision of the history of ideas. This study outlines and reiterates the relationship of theatre to casuistry, the Jesuit contributions to Spanish literary theory and practice, and the importance of casuistry for the study of early modern subjectivity.

Spanish drama (Comedy) --- Spanish drama --- Christianity in literature. --- Casuistry in literature. --- Casuistry. --- Conscience in literature. --- Confession in literature. --- Confession (Liturgy) --- Penitential celebrations --- Penitential rites --- Cases of conscience --- Christian ethics --- Ethics --- Scholasticism --- Applied ethics --- History and criticism. --- Catholic Church --- History