Questioning ethics : contemporary debates in philosophy / edited by Richard Kearney and Mark Dooley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kearney, Richard.

Dooley, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics, Modern--20th century.

Ethics, Modern.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

x, 302 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

chapter INTRODUCTION / Richard Kearney

part Part I HERMENEUTICS

chapter 1 MEMORY AND FORGETTING / Paul Ricoeur

chapter 2 Imagination, testimony and trust: a dialogue with

Paul Ricoeur / A dialogue with Paul Ricoeur

chapter 3 NARRATIVE AND THE ETHICS OF REMEMBRANCE / Richard Kearney

chapter 4 THE POLITICS OF MEMORY

Reflections on practical wisdom and political identity / Jeffrey Barash

chapter 5 ETHICS AND LIFEWORLDS* / Jean Greisch

part Part II DECONSTRUCTION

chapter 6 Hospitality, justice and responsibility: a dialogue with

Jacques Derrida / A dialogue with Jacques Derrida

chapter 7 REASON, HISTORY, AND A LITTLE MADNESS

Towards an ethics of the kingdom / John D.Caputo

chapter 8 THE EXPERIENCE OF THE ETHICAL / David Wood

chapter 9 THE ETHICS OF EXCLUSION

Incorporating the Continent / Simon Glendinning

part Part III CRITICAL THEORY

chapter 10 THREE NORMATIVE MODELS OF DEMOCRACY

Liberal, republican, procedural / Jürgen Habermas

chapter 11 THE PROBLEM OF JUSTICE IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY

The response of discourse ethics / Karl-Otto Apel

chapter 12 ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE IDEA OF PUBLIC REASON / Thomas McCarthy

chapter 13 PARADIGMS OF PUBLIC REASON

Reflections on ethics and democracy / David M.Rasmussen

part Part IV PSYCHOANALYSIS

chapter 14 IN THE NAME-OF-THE-FATHER

The Law? / William J.Richardson

chapter 15 REVOLT TODAY?* / Julia Kristeva

chapter 16 THE ORIGINAL TRAUMATISM

Levinas and psychoanalysis / Simon Critchley

part Part V APPLICATIONS

chapter 17 SOME ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECTS RECONSIDERED / Alasdair MacIntyre

chapter 18 QUESTIONING AUTONOMY

The feminist challenge and the challenge for feminism / Maeve Cooke

chapter 19 FROM ETHICS TO BIOETHICS / Peter Kemp.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-67924-6

1-134-67925-4

1-280-31892-9

0-203-45083-3

9780203450833

OCLC:

437080416