Ethics, Society, Politics : : Proceedings of the 35th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 2012 / / ed. by Hajo Greif, Martin Gerhard Weiss.

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• MitwirkendeR: Bińczyk, Ewa,; Braun, Matthias,; Buyx, Alena,; Chwaszcza, Christine,; Crary, Alice,; Dabrock, Peter,; Derra, Aleksandra,; Fellmann, Ferdinand,; Fischer, Heinz,; Flatscher, Matthias,; Gesang, Bernward,; Harré, Rom,; Heller, Agnes,; Hintikka, Jaakko,; Koller, Peter,; Kroß, Matthias,; Körtner, Ulrich H.J.,; La Torre, Massimo,; Leist, Anton,; Loidolt, Sophie,; Mieth, Corinna,; Mouffe, Chantal,; Neges, Katharina,; Nida-Rümelin, Julian,; Prainsack, Barbara,; Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph,; Ried, Jens,; Sluga, Hans,; Stern, David G.,; Vattimo, Gianni,
• HerausgeberIn: Greif, Hajo,; Weiss, Martin Gerhard,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society – New Series , 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (596 p.)

A real book on ethics, as Wittgenstein had it, if one could conceive it in the first place, would be the book to destroy all other books. Yet there is an increasing number of real-world discourses in which ethical values aremobilized as justifications for socio-political action while, in turn, moral problems are becoming a topic of political negotiation. Although it will be difficult to find systematic accounts of an absolute good or of absolutevalues in these debates, it is equally difficult to imagine them not being deeply informed by such considerations. Rather than merely adding to the corpus of applied ethics on the one hand or remaining in seemingly Wittgensteinian silence about ethics on the other, many contributions to this volume explore the reach of what can be said in ethical terms, while others provide critical discussions of what is being said in various fields of applied ethics and political philosophy under real-world power relations. This volume collects invited contributions from the 35th International Wittgenstein Symposium 2012 in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria. Authors include: Alice Crary, Peter Dabrock, Rom Harré, Agnes Heller, Jaakko Hintikka, Peter Koller, Anton Leist, Chantal Mouffe, Julian Nida-Rümelin, Hans Sluga, David Stern, Gianni Vattimo.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Grußwort des Bundespräsidenten -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I. Wittgenstein -- Beyond “the New” Wittgenstein -- Are There Moral Hinges? -- Wittgenstein on Ethical Concepts: A Reading of Philosophical Investigations §77 and Moore’s Lecture Notes, May 1933 -- The Rule-Following Problem and Wittgenstein’s Development -- Wittgenstein liest Spengler. Lektüre einer Lektüre -- Wittgensteins Geschichtlichkeit -- Das Problem des Nicht-Verstehens. Zum Verhältnis von Verstehen und Welt bei Wittgenstein und Husserl -- II. Ethical Concepts, Moral Theory -- Moral Dilemma and Practical Reason -- Welt der Abgründe. Julian Nida-Rümelins „Wittgenstein’sche Perspektive“ revidiert -- Freedom is for the Dogs -- Rechte und Autonomie im Utilitarismus -- Alterity and/or Plurality? Two Pre-normative Paradigms for Ethics and Politics in Levinas and Arendt -- Morality United. Answering the Normative and Nonnormative of Moral Norms -- III. Power – Ethics – Politics -- Truth in Politics -- The Ethics and Politics of Democracy: An Agonistic Approach -- Soziale Macht und moralischer Diskurs -- Who’s Afraid of the Constitutional Judge? Decisionism and Legal Positivism -- International Practice and Human Rights. A Criticism of the Interventionist Account -- Global Economic Injustice, Individual Duties and Social Responsibility -- IV. Life – Nature – Science -- Hand und Fuß. Begründungsprobleme einer Ethik des Leibes am Beispiel des Ersatzes menschlicher Gliedmaßen -- From Functional Differentiation to (Re-) Hybridization. The Challenges of Bio-Objects in Synthetic Biology -- Sterben als Teil des Lebens und als Handlungsraum. Ethische Überlegungen -- Thinking about the Role of Laboratories Today: Anti-essentialism, Macro-ethics and the Participatory Turn -- Why has the Queen of Bees been the King for so Long? A Few Reflections on the Gender Problem in Science -- Indikationsloser Schwangerschaftsabbruch Kritik einer Kontroverse -- Solidarität – Der Versuch einer neuen Definition