Essays on Ethics and Culture

by Lovibond, Sabina

• ISBN13: 9780192856166
• ISBN10: 0192856162
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192668851
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-02-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Sabina Lovibond, Emeritus Fellow, Worcester College, University of Oxford

Sabina Lovibond read Literae Humaniores (Classics) at Somerville College, Oxford, and began her postgraduate career at University College, London, where she gained a PhD in Philosophy. She returned to Somerville as holder of the Mary Somerville Research Fellowship (1979-82), and from 1982 to 2011 taught Philosophy at Worcester College, Oxford, where she held a Tutorial Fellowship from 1984. Her work has been mainly in ethics and feminist theory, but with some continuing input from the ancient philosophy background. The later philosophy of Wittgenstein has also been an enduring influence.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Wittgenstein and Moral Realism: The Debate Continues
2. Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, and the 'Apocalyptic View'
3. 'The Sickness of a Time': Social Pathology and Therapeutic Philosophy
4. Second Nature, Habitus, and the Ethical: Remarks on Wittgenstein and Bourdieu
5. Practical Reason and Character-Formation
6. Between Tradition and Criticism: The 'Uncodifiability' of the Normative
7. The Unquiet Life: Salience and Moral Responsibility
8. The Varieties of Attention
9. The Elusiveness of the Ethical: From Murdoch to Diamond
10. Post-Existentialist Moments: Murdoch and Highsmith
11. Iris Murdoch and the Quality of Consciousness
12. Vulnerable and Invulnerable: Two Faces of Dialectical Reasoning
13. Judith Butler on Political Agency
14. Philosophy, Literature, Politics: The Cases of Rorty and Collingwood
Acknowledgements
Index