Ethics and social criticism?

This article deals with the ethical approach of the literature in the conte xt of a questioning of the platonic-aristotelian tradition's hegemony over the philosophical and literary fields, calling to mind the evolution of the Ideological State Apparatus' system which rules the literary field and dis tinguishing between the three social practices of this institutional activi ty(writing, reading and criticising). In the second part, it points out how this approach implies questioning the subject problem and the relations th e text establishes between meaning and signified. This leads Edmond Cros ba ck to the basic presuppositions on which he builds his theory, focussed on the morphogenesis and characterized by the specific functioning of a notion al field where social and moral values are re-distributed by conflicting di scourses.