Obligation and the Fact of Sense
Published on 3. November 2020
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Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-4744-4273-2 (ISBN)
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Staging a fruitful dialogue between the analytic and Continental philosophical traditions, while reflecting specifically on the work of Hegel, Merleau-Ponty, Serres and Nancy, Lueck offers a creative new approach to the problem of moral obligation. Lueck builds on Immanuel Kant's fact of reason - the idea that being a moral subject necessarily presupposes ones having accepted the bindingness of obligation - to show that it must be rethought as the fact of sense.
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This book explains how the leading modern theories in ethics require but fail to account for obligation. Then through a study of our commitment to the world and to sense, in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Serres, and Jean-Luc Nancy, the author offers a new way to argue for the reality of obligation. * Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University * Obligation and the Fact of Sense is an impressive synthesis of ideas [...] a clear and quite thought-provoking account of a view of obligation. -- James Oldfield * Continental Philosophy Review *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
277 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-4273-2 (9781474442732)
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Bryan Lueck is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. His research focuses on topics in normative ethics including obligation, contempt, dignity and forgiveness, as well as on issues in 20th-century and contemporary Continental philosophy. He is the author of numerous articles on such figures as Immanuel Kant, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Serres, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Giorgio Agamben.
Content
Introduction: Ethics in the Sheep's Shop
Philosophical Reflection on Obligation
Elements of a General Conception of Obligation
1. Four Early Modern Accounts of Obligation
Voluntarism
Rationalism
Egoism
Sentimentalism
2. The Copernican Revolution in Ethics
Reflection as the Source of the Problem of Normativity
Kant and the Copernican Revolution in Ethics
The Argument of the Collins Lectures
The Argument of the Groundwork
The Fact of Reason
3. Perceptual and Expressive Sense
Normativity in Perceptual Experience
Two Objections to the Perception-Based Account
Saussurian Linguistics
Merleau-Ponty's Reinterpretation of Saussure
The Dynamic of Communication
Obligation and the Claim of the Other
4. Noise
Noise as Originary
Noise and Moral Sense
Exposure to Noise as the Fact of Sense
Harlequin Emperor of the Moon
The Devil or the Good Lord?
5. Abandonment and the Moral Law
Sense as Shared
Abandonment and Obligation
Dignity
6. Indifference
Obligation as Overriding
The Givenness of Facts
Subjunctive Indeterminacy
The Law of Expansion
7. Conclusion
Is This Still Obligation?
A Deflationary Account
NotesBibliography
Philosophical Reflection on Obligation
Elements of a General Conception of Obligation
1. Four Early Modern Accounts of Obligation
Voluntarism
Rationalism
Egoism
Sentimentalism
2. The Copernican Revolution in Ethics
Reflection as the Source of the Problem of Normativity
Kant and the Copernican Revolution in Ethics
The Argument of the Collins Lectures
The Argument of the Groundwork
The Fact of Reason
3. Perceptual and Expressive Sense
Normativity in Perceptual Experience
Two Objections to the Perception-Based Account
Saussurian Linguistics
Merleau-Ponty's Reinterpretation of Saussure
The Dynamic of Communication
Obligation and the Claim of the Other
4. Noise
Noise as Originary
Noise and Moral Sense
Exposure to Noise as the Fact of Sense
Harlequin Emperor of the Moon
The Devil or the Good Lord?
5. Abandonment and the Moral Law
Sense as Shared
Abandonment and Obligation
Dignity
6. Indifference
Obligation as Overriding
The Givenness of Facts
Subjunctive Indeterminacy
The Law of Expansion
7. Conclusion
Is This Still Obligation?
A Deflationary Account
NotesBibliography