Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in Continental Philosophy

by Dooley,Mark; Dooley,Mark

• ISBN13: 9780415180351
• ISBN10: 041518035X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134679249
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-11-24
• 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

Introduction	p. 1
Hermeneutics	p. 3
Memory and Forgetting	p. 5
Imagination, Testimony and Trust	p. 12
Narrative and the Ethics of Remembrance	p. 18
References	p. 32
The Politics of Memory	p. 33
Ethics and Lifeworlds	p. 44
Deconstruction	p. 63
Hospitality, Justice and Responsibility	p. 65
Notes	p. 83
Reason, History, and a Little Madness	p. 84
The Experience of the Ethical	p. 105
The Ethics of Exclusion	p. 120
Notes	p. 130
Critical Theory	p. 133
Three Normative Models of Democracy	p. 135
The Problem of Justice in a Multicultural Society	p. 145
Notes	p. 161
Enlightenment and the Idea of Public Reason	p. 164
Paradigms of Public Reason	p. 181
Psychoanalysis	p. 199
In the Name-Of-The-Father	p. 201
Revolt Today?	p. 220
The Original Traumatism	p. 230
Applications	p. 243
Some Enlightenment Projects Reconsidered	p. 245
Questioning Autonomy	p. 258
From Ethics to Bioethics	p. 283
Index	p. 294
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