Moral Understandings - A Feminist Study in Ethics

Klappentext Walker proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to rethink the epistemological and moral position of the ethical theorist, and how moral theory is shaped by culture and history. The new edition contains a new preface, chapters and an afterword responding to critics. Zusammenfassung Walker proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to rethink the epistemological and moral position of the ethical theorist, and how moral theory is shaped by culture and history. The new edition contains a new preface, chapters and an afterword responding to critics.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Urban Walker
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2007
• EAN: 9780195315394
• ISBN: 978-0-19-531539-4
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy; Studies in Feminist Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Ethik und Moralphilosophie, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Feminism & feminist theory, Ethics and moral philosophy, Feminism and feminist theory