The Turn to Ethics

What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory. The philosophers, political theorists, literary critics and physician whose essays are collected here bring the particularities of their disciplines and training to a vital complex of questions.

Table des matières

Chapter 1 What We Talk About When We Talk About Ethics, Lawrence Buell; Chapter 2 Ethical Ambivalence, Judith Butler; Chapter 3 The Ethical Practice of Modernity, John Guillory; Chapter 4 Using People, Barbara Johnson; Chapter 5 The Best Intentions, Perri Klass; Chapter 6 Which Ethics for Democracy?, Chantal Mouffe; Chapter 7 Recognition without Ethics?, Nancy Fraser; Chapter 8 Ethics of the Other, Beatrice Hanssen; Chapter 9 On Cultural Choice, Homi K. Bhabha; Chapter 10 Atttitude, Its Rhetoric, Doris Sommer; Chapter 11 Cosmopolitan Ethics, Rebecca L. Walkowitz;

A propos de l'auteur

Marjorie Garber is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. She is Editor of the Routledge book series CultureWork and author of Symptoms of Culture. BeatriceHanssen is Associate Professor of German at Harvard University and author of Critique of Violence: BetweenPoststructuralism and Critical Theory. Rebecca L.Walkowitz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Associate Editor of the CultureWork series.

Résumé

These essays from scholars in literature, philosophy, politics, and medicine seeks to shed new light on the wide range of ethical debates raging today; from bioethics and the ethics of political action to the ethics of reading and making distinctions between morality and ethics.

Détails du produit

• Collaboration: Marjorie Garber (Editeur), Garber Marjorie (Editeur), Beatrice Hanssen (Editeur), Hanssen Beatrice (Editeur), Rebecca L Walkowitz (Editeur), Walkowitz Rebecca L. (Editeur)
• Edition: Taylor and Francis
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 11.08.2000
• EAN: 9780415922258
• ISBN: 978-0-415-92225-8
• Pages: 252
• Poids: 630 g
• Thème: CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Autres; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ART / Popular Culture, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Literary theory