James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism

In James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism, first published in 2001, a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of ''egoism''. This concept, Jean-Michel Rabaté argues, runs throughout Joyce''s work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, ''hospitality'', a term Rabaté understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to ''the other''. For Rabaté both conce...