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Questioning Ethics : Contemporary Debates in Continental Philosophy.
Title:
Questioning Ethics : Contemporary Debates in Continental Philosophy.
Author:
Apel, Karl-Otto.
ISBN:
9780203450833
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (313 pages)
Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Hermeneutics -- Memory and forgetting -- Imagination, testimony and trust: a dialogue with Paul Ricoeur -- Narrative and the ethics of remembrance -- The politics of memory: reflections on practical wisdom and political identity -- Ethics and lifeworlds -- Deconstruction -- Hospitality, justice and responsibility: a dialogue with Jacques Derrida -- Reason, history, and a little madness: towards an ethics of the kingdom -- The experience of the ethical -- The ethics of exclusion: incorporating the Continent -- Critical theory -- Three normative models of democracy: liberal, republican, procedural -- The problem of justice in a multicultural society: the response of discourse ethics -- Enlightenment and the idea of public reason -- Paradigms of public reason: reflections on ethics and democracy -- Psychoanalysis -- In the name-of-the-Father: the Law? -- Revolt today? -- The original traumatism: Levinas and psychoanalysis -- Applications -- Some Enlightenment projects reconsidered -- Questioning autonomy: the feminist challenge and the challenge for feminism -- From ethics to bioethics -- Index.
Abstract:
This major discussion takes a look at some of the most important ethical issues confronting us today by some of the world's leading thinkers. Including essays from leading thinkers, such as Jurgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Julia Kristeva and Paul Ricoeur, the book's highlight - an interview with Jacques Derrida - presents the most accessible insight into his thinking on ethics and politics for many years. Exploring topics ranging from history, memory, revisionism, and the self and responsibility to democracy, multiculturalism, feminism and the future of politics, the essays are grouped into five thematic sections: * hermeneutics * deconstruction * critical theory * psychoanalysis * applied ethics. Each section considers the challenges posed by ethics and how critical thinking has transformed philosophy today. Questioning Ethics affords an unsurpassed overview of the state of ethical thinking today by some of the world's foremost philosophers.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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