Essays on ethics and feminism / Sabina Lovibond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lovibond, Sabina, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist ethics.

Ethics.

Feminism.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

281 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Essays on Ethics and Feminism brings together a selection of Sabina Lovibond's shorter writings from 1989-2014. This work lays claim to a broad thematic unity based on its affiliation to the realist or rationalist tradition in moral philosophy. Some of the essays seek to clarify the relation of feminism to that tradition and to current anti-rationalist tendencies: especially important here are the status and prospects of normativity, autonomy, purposive action, and other conceptual resources for critical thinking which were called into question over (roughly) the last third of the twentieth century - not least by feminist writers heedful of 'continental' European developments. The book as a whole is concerned with fundamental ethical questions, including, but not restricted to, questions of feminist ethics - such as the nature of value and the good life; moral requirements and their associated epistemology; character-formation and the ideological critique of the processes by which this is carried out. The essays deploy ideas drawn both from Platonic-Aristotelian and from Kantian ethics, as well as from later Wittgenstein. However, they also attempt to respond to the destabilizing impact of Nietzschean and postmodernist thought. The writing is addressed to those engaged in, or with some interest in, academic philosophy and draws on a wide range of philosophical source materials, but avoids unnecessary technicality. In the same way, it should appeal to those with a pre-existing interest in academic feminism (and in some forms of feminist activism), but could also serve to draw new readers into the domain of feminist thought. Book jacket.

Contents:

Feminism and postmodernism

Feminism and pragmatism, a reply to Richard Rorty

Feminism and the 'crisis of rationality'

Meaning what we say, feminist ethics and the critique of humanism

The feminist stake in Greek rationalism

'Gendering' as an ethical concept

Ethical upbringing, from connivance to cognition

Absolute prohibitions without divine promises

Religion and modernity, living in the hypercontext

'In spite of the misery of the world', ethics, contemplation, and the source of value

'Ethical living' in the media and in philosophy

Selflessness and other moral baggage

Nietzche on distance, beauty, and truth

Iris Murdoch and the ambiguity of freedom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780198719625

0198719620

OCLC:

907131348

Publisher Number:

99965581352