The Ethics of Postmodernity: Current Trends in Continental Thought

Recently the question of ethics has become a dominant issue for philosophical reflection. In THE ETHICS OF POSTMODERNITY, Gary Madison and Marty Fairbarn have collected instructive and illuminating essays that address the dilemmas left in the wake of the postmodern attack on foundationalism. This collection is a powerful statement about the many directions a post-metaphysical ethics might take.

About the author

GARY MADISON is an emeritus professor of philosophy at McMaster University, and the editor of Working Through Derrida, published by Northwestern University Press in 1993.
MARTY FAIRBAIRN writes film criticism for the journal film-philosophy and is the author of Cinema as Secular Temple: A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Film Experience.

Summary

A collection of essays addressing the question of ethics in modern philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Gary B. Madison
• Assisted by: Marty Fairbarn (Editor), Gary Madison (Editor), Gary B. Madison (Editor), Gary Brent Madison (Editor)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1997
• EAN: 9780810113763
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-1376-3
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; Studies in Phenomenology and E; Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; Studies in Phenomenology and E
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works