The Turn to Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780415922258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 252 str.

Marjorie B. Garber; Rebecca L. Walkowitz; Beatrice Hanssen

Opis

Based on a conference held at the Center for Literary Studies at Harvard University, this collection of 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.

Recenzje

"The contributors to this fine collection are from a wide range of backgrounds, including literary studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and pediactrics... a careful reading of each essay is a richly rewarding experience." -- Nicholas Pagan

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

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. Beatrice Hanssen is Associate Professor of German at Harvard University and author of Critique of Violence: Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory. Rebecca L. Walkowitz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Associate Editor of the CultureWork series.