Difficulties of Ethical Life /

Difficulties of Ethical Life / / ed. by Shannon Sullivan, Dennis J. Schmidt.

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This book brings the powerful insights of Continental philosophy to bear on some of the most challenging difficulties of ethical life. Currently philosophy is being radically transformed by questions of how to live well. What does such a way of life mean? How are we to understand the meaning of ethi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Bergoffen, Debra B.,
Bernasconi, Robert,
Birmingham, Peg,
Critchley, Simon,
Figal, Günter,
Kearney, Richard,
McWhorter, Ladelle,
Mendieta, Eduardo,
Schmidt, Dennis J.,
Scott, Charles E.,
Sullivan, Shannon,
Willett, Cynthia,
HerausgeberIn:
Schmidt, Dennis J.,
Sullivan, Shannon,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2009
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I: QUESTIONS OF ETHICS
  • 1 In the Name of Goodness
  • 2 What Is Philosophical Ethics?
  • 3 Hermeneutics as Original Ethics
  • PART II: THE ETHICS OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
  • 4. Ethical Experience, Ethical Subjectivity
  • 5 9/11: America and the Politics of Innocence
  • 6 Engage the Enemy: Cavell, Comedies of Remarriage, and the Politics of Friendship
  • 7 The Intimacy of Strangers
  • PART III: RESPONSIBILITY AND R ACE
  • 8 Before Whom and for What?
  • 9 Racism and Responsibility
  • 10 Whiteness as Family
  • PART IV: THE ETHICS OF NONTRUTH
  • 11 Narrating Pain
  • 12 On Deception
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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