In this essay, Glazener argues that the classic realist novel occupies a zone of contention between Anglo-American and continental traditions in ethical philosophy. Instead of looking for obvious points of contrast, faulting "the Anglo-Americans for their epistemological naivety and uninterrogated liberalism and the continentals for their obscurantism and the slippery role of practice in their
... [Show full abstract] work," she identifies stylistic and epistemological affinities between the two traditions, as embodied in ethical writings by Martha Nussbaum and Alain Badiou. Glazener argues that the difference between the traditions can be seen as a matter of what Foucault has called "doxology," the study of polemics and opinions, whereas an archeological approach can reveal their epistemic commonalities