In Face of the Facts - Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship

Zusammenfassung Recently there has been a renewed interest in moral inquiry among American scholars in a variety of disciplines. This collection of accessible essays provides a view of the current state of moral inquiry in the American academy! while offering fresh departures for ethically informed! interdisciplinary scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Pragmatism, science, and moral inquiry; 2. Political theory and moral responsibility; 3. Moral inquiry within the bounds of politics: a question of victimhood; 4. Moral confidence: three cheers for naturalized ethics; 5. Fighting (over) words: speech, power, and the moral imagination in American history; 6. 'Of the standard of moral taste': literary criticism as moral inquiry; 7. The moral force field of Haitian Vodou; 8. Snakes alive: resituating the moral in the study of religion; 9. Social science and the moral revival: dilemmas and difficulties; 10. Religion, morality, and other unmentionables: the revival of moral discourse in the law.

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• Authors: Richard Wightman Fox, Richard Wightman Westbrook Fox
• Assisted by: Richard Wightman Fox (Editor), Lee H. Hamilton (Editor), Robert B. Westbrook (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2002
• EAN: 9780521628877
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62887-7
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous