The Turn to Ethics
1st Edition
Published on 11. August 2000
Book
Hardback
252 pages
978-0-415-92225-8 (ISBN)
Description
What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory. The philosophers, political theorists, literary critics and physician whose essays are collected here bring the particularities of their disciplines and training to a vital complex of questions.
Reviews / Votes
"The contributors to this fine collection are from a wide range of backgrounds, including literary studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and pediactrics... a careful reading of each essay is a richly rewarding experience." -- Nicholas PaganMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
524 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-92225-8 (9780415922258)
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Marjorie Garber | Beatrice Hanssen | Rebecca L. Walkowitz
The Turn to Ethics
E-Book
10/2013
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Routledge
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Marjorie Garber | Beatrice Hanssen | Rebecca L. Walkowitz
The Turn to Ethics
E-Book
10/2013
1st Edition
Routledge
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Available for download
Marjorie Garber | Beatrice Hanssen | Rebecca L. Walkowitz
The Turn to Ethics
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08/2000
1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
Marjorie Garber is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. She is Editor of the Routledge book series CultureWork and author of Symptoms of Culture. BeatriceHanssen is Associate Professor of German at Harvard University and author of Critique of Violence: BetweenPoststructuralism and Critical Theory. Rebecca L.Walkowitz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Associate Editor of the CultureWork series.
Content
Chapter 1 What We Talk About When We Talk About Ethics, Lawrence Buell; Chapter 2 Ethical Ambivalence, Judith Butler; Chapter 3 The Ethical Practice of Modernity, John Guillory; Chapter 4 Using People, Barbara Johnson; Chapter 5 The Best Intentions, Perri Klass; Chapter 6 Which Ethics for Democracy?, Chantal Mouffe; Chapter 7 Recognition without Ethics?, Nancy Fraser; Chapter 8 Ethics of the Other, Beatrice Hanssen; Chapter 9 On Cultural Choice, Homi K. Bhabha; Chapter 10 Atttitude, Its Rhetoric, Doris Sommer; Chapter 11 Cosmopolitan Ethics, Rebecca L. Walkowitz;