Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in Continental Philosophy

by Dooley,Mark; Dooley,Mark

• ISBN13: 9780415180344
• ISBN10: 0415180341
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134679249
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-22
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

This major discussion takes a look at some of the most important ethical issues confronting us today by some of the world's leading thinkers. Including essays from leading thinkers, such as Jurgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Julia Kristeva and Paul Ricoeur, the book's highlight - an interview with Jacques Derrida - presents the most accessible insight into his thinking on ethics and politics for many years. Exploring topics ranging from history, memory, revisionism, and the self and responsibility to democracy, multiculturalism, feminism and the future of politics, the essays are grouped into five thematic sections:* hermeneutics* deconstruction* critical theory* psychoanalysis* applied ethics.Each section considers the challenges posed by ethics and how critical thinking has transformed philosophy today. Questioning Ethics affords an unsurpassed overview of the state of ethical thinking today by some of the world's foremost philosophers.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	x
Introduction	1	(2)
RICHARD KEARNEY
MARK DOOLEY
PART I Hermeneutics	3	(60)
1 Memory and forgetting	5	(7)
PAUL RICOEUR
2 Imagination, testimony and trust: a dialogue with Paul Ricoeur	12	(6)
3 Narrative and the ethics of remembrance	18	(15)
RICHARD KEARNEY
4 The Politics of memory: reflections on practical wisdom and political identity	33	(11)
JEFFREY BARASH
5 Ethics and lifeworlds	44	(19)
JEAN GREISCH
PART II Deconstruction	63	(70)
6 Hospitality, justice and responsibility: a dialogue with Jacques Derrida	65	(19)
7 Reason, history, and a little madness: towards an ethics of the kingdom	84	(21)
JOHN D. CAPUTO
8 The experience of the ethical	105	(15)
DAVID WOOD
9 The ethics of exclusion: incorporating the Continent	120	(13)
SIMON GLENDINNING
PART III Critical theory	133	(66)
10 Three normative models of democracy: liberal, republican, procedural	135	(10)
JURGEN HABERMAS
11 The problem of justice in a multicultural society: the response of discourse ethics	145	(19)
KARL-OTTO APEL
12 Enlightenment and the idea of public reason	164	(17)
THOMAS McCARTHY
13 Paradigms of public reason: reflections on ethics and democracy	181	(18)
DAVID M. RASMUSSEN
PART IV Psychoanalysis	199	(44)
14 In the name-of-the-Father: the Law?	201	(19)
WILLIAM J. RICHARDSON
15 Revolt today?	220	(10)
JULIA KRISTEVA
16 The original traumatism: Levinas and psychoanalysis	230	(13)
SIMON CRITCHLEY
PART V Applications	243	(51)
17 Some Enlightenment projects reconsidered	245	(13)
ALASDAIR MacINTYRE
18 Questioning autonomy: the feminist challenge and the challenge for feminism	258	(25)
MAEVE COOKE
19 From ethics to bioethics	283	(11)
PETER KEMP
Index	294