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Sommario
Acknowledgements
Source Acknowledgements and Abbreviations
Introduction
1. (Moral) Philosophy in a Thoroughly Disenchanted Universe
2. An Insurrectionist Ethics:
Critical Pragmatism and Philosophia Nata Ex Conatu
3. New Descriptions, New Possibilities
4. Empathy or Insurrection:
Wielding Positive and Negative Affect
5. Evoking Race (to Confront Race-Based Oppression); Or,
Adversarial Groups as Anabsolute
6. Building Traditions, Shaping Futures:
Values, Norms, and Transvaluation
Epilogue
Index
Info autore
Lee A. McBride III is Professor of Philosophy at the College of Wooster, USA. He is the editor of A Philosophy of Struggle: The Leonard Harris Reader (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Riassunto
Ethics and Insurrection articulates an ethical position that takes critical pragmatism and Harrisian insurrectionist philosophy seriously. It suggests that there are values and norms that create boundaries that confine, reduce and circumscribe the actions we allow ourselves to consider. McBride argues that an insurrectionist ethos is integral in the disavowing of norms and traditions that justify or perpetuate oppression and that we must throw our faith behind something, some set of values, if we want a chance at shaping a future.
This book encourages us to (re)imagine and shape futures with less subjection, less degradation. It urges us to interrogate and deconstruct those intervening background assumptions that authorize and reinforce the subordination of stigmatized groups. It implores us to pursue new conceptions of personhood and humanity, conceptions that forefront reciprocity and solidarity—conceptions that do not cast groups of human beings as inherently subhuman or naturally bereft of honor. And finally Ethics and Insurrection beseeches us to form new coalitions and bonds of trust, to engage in those forms of collective action likely to shape a better future.
Prefazione
Drawing from Leonard Harris, María Lugones, John Dewey, and Alain Locke, and considering the impact of mixed-race, multiethnic identities, this book carves out a space to define what insurrectionist ethics are and how they can be used to eradicate oppression and racial inequalities.
Testo aggiuntivo
A provocative, creative and challenging account of ethical naturalism that makes us see why an ethos of insurrection is vital to any democracy and struggle for human liberation. Stepping over the dead-pan world of professional moral philosophy, McBride provides an optimism in the face of cruel choices. If there is a form of pragmatism that can provide motivation - the transvaluation of values - to struggle against forced prostitution, child servitude and racist exploitation, McBride purports provide its depiction. It takes the ethics of insurrection and shows its universality. With the ethos of the ethics of insurrection and democratic sensibilities, McBride fashions a walkway of arguments and pictures. McBride carves a space between critical pragmatist experimentalism and an insurrectionist ethics – the space is where we want our choices not to harm anyone as we test different ethical choices and where nothing allows for our choices to be anything but harmless.
