Essays on ethics and feminism / Sabina Lovibond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lovibond, Sabina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist ethics.

Ethics.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Ethics and feminism

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

This selection of Lovibond's shorter writings from 1989-2014 has a broad thematic unity based on its affiliation to the realist or rationalist traditions in moral philosophy. Some of the essays seek to clarify the relation of feminism to these traditions 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 called into question over the last third of the 20th century - not least by feminist writers heedful of 'Continental' European developments.

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 and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-19-103032-5

0-19-103031-7

0-19-178871-6

OCLC:

922671425