The Ethical

by Wyschogrod, Edith; McKenny, Gerald

• ISBN13: 9780631215530
• ISBN10: 0631215530
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Ethical is a collection of readings on ethics and the nature of morality by some of the most important contemporary philosophers in the continental tradition. Recent attention to ethics in continental thought often taken to be antithetical to Anglo-American moral philosophy demonstrates how much these two traditions have in common. The essays in this volume indicate the rich history and contemporary vitality of ethics in continental philosophy. They reflect a variety of currents in continental thought, including phenomenology, genealogy, deconstruction, and discourse ethics. Topics addressed include the status of the moral agent and its constitution or formation, the priority to be assigned to the other in relation to the self, the critique of rigid models of moral reasoning, and the limits of the moral. This is the first anthology of its kind devoted to emphasizing continental ethical philosophy as an important area of study in its own right.

Author Biography

Edith Wyschogrod is J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. She is author of several books including An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology and the Nameless Others (1998), Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy (1990), and Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics (1974).

Gerald P. McKenny is Associate Professor of Ethics in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of To Relieve the Human Condition: Bioethics, Technology and the Body (1997).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: About the Ethical	1	(12)
Edith Wyschogrod
Gerald P. McKenny
Part I Phenomenology and Beyond	13	(68)
Kantianism and Phenomenology	15	(18)
Steven G. Crowell
The Original Otherness of the Ego: A Rereading of Descartes's Meditatio II	33	(21)
Jean-Luc Marion
Towards a Postmodern Ethics: Corporeality and Alterity	54	(12)
Edith Wyschogrod
Phenomenology: Ethics, Value, and the Subject	66	(15)
Charles E. Scott
Part II Aporias of Justice	81	(36)
Discourse Ethics	83	(18)
William Rehg
Philosophy and Law: Questioning Justice	101	(16)
Robert Gibbs
Part III Analytics of Self-Formation	117	(50)
Kristeva's Ethics of Crisis: Art and Abjection, Love and Melancholia	119	(27)
Tina Chanter
Toward an Anthropology of Ethics: Foucault and the Pedagogies of Autopoiesis	146	(21)
James D. Faubion
Part IV (Ethics) Beyond the Ethical?	167	(50)
Against Principles: A Sketch of an Ethics without Ethics	169	(12)
John D. Caputo
The Good, the Bad, and the Virtual: Ethics in the Age of Information	181	(16)
Mark Poster
The Immoralist	197	(20)
Alphonso Lingis
Name Index	217	(5)
Subject Index	222