In Face of the Facts
Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship
Published on 28. January 1998
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-0-521-62133-5 (ISBN)
Description
Recently there has been a renewed interest in moral inquiry among American scholars in a variety of disciplines. This collection of accessible essays by scholars in philosophy, political theory, psychology, history, literary studies, sociology, religious studies, anthropology, and legal studies affords a view of the current state of moral inquiry in the American academy, and it offers fresh departures for ethically informed, interdisciplinary scholarship. Seeking neither to reduce values to facts nor facts to values, these essays aim to foster discussion about inquiry and moral judgment, and demonstrate that moral inquiry need not be either dispassionate and value-free or moralistic and preachy.
Reviews / Votes
"...each paper is excellent, equally insightful about 'moral inquiry' in general and in the particular discipline discussed." The Virginia Quarterly ReviewMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-62133-5 (9780521621335)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Richard Wightman Fox | Robert B. Westbrook
In Face of the Facts
Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship
Book
11/2002
Cambridge University Press
€46.50
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Content
Introduction; 1. Pragmatism, science, and moral inquiry; 2. Political theory and moral responsibility; 3. Moral inquiry within the bounds of politics: a question of victimhood; 4. Moral confidence: three cheers for naturalized ethics; 5. Fighting (over) words: speech, power, and the moral imagination in American history; 6. 'Of the standard of moral taste': literary criticism as moral inquiry; 7. The moral force field of Haitian Vodou; 8. Snakes alive: resituating the moral in the study of religion; 9. Social science and the moral revival: dilemmas and difficulties; 10. Religion, morality, and other unmentionables: the revival of moral discourse in the law.