Ethics and phenomenology / edited by Mark Sanders and J. Jeremy Wisnewski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sanders, Mark, 1971-

Wisnewski, Jeremy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ethics and Phenomenology examines the relevance of major phenomenologists and phenomenological concepts to ethical inquiry in general, as well as to a broad range of contemporary ethical issues.

Contents:

ETHICS AND PHENOMENOLOGY; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Ethics and the Classical Phenomenologists; 1 A Phenomenological Ethics of the Absolute Ought: Investigating Husserl's Unpublished Ethical Writings; 2 Between Scheler and Hartmann: Problems of a Material Value-Ethics; 3 Heidegger's Aristotelian Ethics; 4 Metaphysics after "the End of Metaphysics": Recovering "the Good" from Heidegger; 5 Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Engagement; 6 The Hell of Our Choosing: Sartre's Ethics and the Impossibility of Interpersonal Conversion; 7 Levinasian Autonomy: How to Free a Hostage

Part II: Phenomenological Approaches to Issues in Ethics8 Hands-On Care: Tactility and Ethical Performance; 9 The Phenomenological Shift of Parenthood; 10 Coding the Dictatorship of "the They": A Phenomenological Critique of Digital Rights Management; 11 Person and Environment: Vital Sympathy and the Roots of Environmental Ethics; 12 Husserl and the Responsibility and Sacrifice of Derrida; 13 War as katharsis? Scheler on War; 14 Eichmann in Athens: Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas and the New Problem of Evil; 15 From the Other to the Subject: Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler

16 Phenomenology as an Ascetic PracticeBibliography; Index; Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-28234-1

1-280-77020-1

9786613680976

0-7391-7486-X

OCLC:

854520025