Wonder & generosity : their role in ethics and politics / Marguerite La Caze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

La Caze, Marguerite.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generosity.

Wonder.

Political ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wonder and Generosity provides a fresh account of how the passions of wonder—based on accepting others' differences—and generosity—based on self-respect and mutual respect—can supplement each other to establish an ethics and politics of respect for sexual and cultural differences. Drawing on the work of both historical and contemporary thinkers, such as Descartes, Kant, Beauvoir, Arendt, Irigaray, and Derrida, Marguerite La Caze applies her theoretical framework to a range of contemporary political challenges, including asylum-seeker policies, justice for indigenous and other oppressed groups, debates over official apologies, gender equality, and responses to radical evil. La Caze's book contributes to understanding the relationship between equality and difference in public life, the extent to which we must regard others as similar in the name of equality, and the extent to which we must acknowledge significant differences.

Contents:

Wonder and generosity

Love and respect

Responding to difference and similarity

The relation between ethics and politics

Cosmopolitanism, hospitality and refugees

Wonder, radical evil and forgiveness

Apology, forgiveness, and reconciliation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4619-3109-6

1-4384-4677-2

OCLC:

848918809