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Existentialist thinkers and ethics / edited by Christine Daigle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daigle, Christine, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Existential ethics.
- Existentialism.
- Existentialism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An inquiry into the possibility and viability of existentialist ethics. Through examination of the thought of eight key figures in existentialism, this work tackles the difficulties raised by an existentialist ethics and shows how each thinker successfully elaborated an ethics that provides a viable alternative to traditional ethical views.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The problem of ethics for existentialism / Christine Daigle
- The exception as reinforcement of the ethical norm : the figures of Abraham and Job in Kierkegaard's ethical thought / Dominic Desroaches
- A Nietzschean solution to ethical relativism / David W. Goldberg
- The politics of authentic existence / Todd Lavin
- Yes, she is an ethicist : Arendt, responsibility, and existentialism / Stephen Schulman
- Sartre on atheism, freedom, and morality in The humanism of existentialism / Glenn Braddock
- An ethics of measure : Camus and Rousseau / Philip Knee
- The ambiguous ethics of Beauvoir / Christine Daigle
- Merleau-Ponty's embodied ethics : rethinking traditional ethics / Kym Maclaren
- Conclusion: From the ethical to the political / Christine Daigle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-52941-6
- 9786613841865
- 0-7735-8575-3
- OCLC:
- 608592745
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