The Continental Ethics Reader by Matthew Calarco
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Continental Ethics Reader
Summary
The Continental Ethics Reader is a comprehensive anthology of classic writings on ethics and moral philosophy from the major figures in Continental thought. All of the authors and their writings are introduced and placed in philosophical context by the editors.
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A superb volume and certainly one that I--and many other professors--would find immensely helpful. -- Richard Kearney, Boston College
The Continental Ethics Reader establishes the depth and significance of the contribution by Continental philosophers to our understanding of ethics. The breadth and balance of this volume make it an invaluable resource for students and teachers alike. -- Robert Bernasconi, The University of Memphis
'[This book] is, no doubt, a much-needed resource for students and researchers in a variety of disciplines currently influenced by Continental thought.' - Critical and Cultural Theory
A superb volume and certainly one that I--and many other professors--would find immensely helpful.' - Richard Kearney, Boston College
'The Continental Ethics Reader establishes the depth and significance of the contribution by Continental philosophers to our understanding of ethics. The breadth and balance of this volume make it an invaluable resource for students and teachers alike.' - Robert Bernasconi, The University of Memphis
'[This book] is, no doubt, a much-needed resource for students and researchers in a variety of disciplines currently influenced by Continental thought.' - Critical and Cultural Theory
About Matthew Calarco
Matthew Calarco is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sweet Briar College. Peter Atterton teaches philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1. Phenomenology and Hermeneutics Introduction 1. Lordship and Bondage, Phenomenology of Spirit W. F. Hegel 2. Extracts from Fifth Meditation, Cartesian Meditations: Edmund Husserl 3. Extracts from Two Sources of Morality and Religion: Henri Bergson 4. Extracts from The Sphere of Values, Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values Max Scheler 5. Extracts from Being and Time, and Letter on Humanism: Martin Heidegger 6. On the Possibility of a Philosophical Ehtics: Hans-Georg Gadamer 7. Philosophy and the Idea of Infinity: Emmanuel Levinas 7. Philosophy and the Idea of Infinity: Emmanuel Levinas 8. The Problem of the Foundation of Moral Philosophy: Paul Ricoeur Part 2. Existentialism Introduction 9. The Teleological Suspension of the Ethical, Fear and Trembling: Soren Kierkegaard 10. First Essay: Good and Evil, Good and Bad, On the Genealogy of Morals: Friedrich Nietzsche 11. Extracts from I and Thou: Martin Buber 12. The Moral Claim: Karl Jaspers 13. Existentialism in a Humanism: Jean-Paul Sartre 14. The Experience of Others: Maurice Merleau-Ponty 15. Extracts from The Ethics of Amiguity: Simone De Beauvoir Part 3. Critical Theory Introduction 16. Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin 17. Enlightenment and Morality, Dialectic Enlightenment: Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer 18. Extracts from One-Dimensional Man: Herbert Marcuse 19. On the Pragmatic, the Ethical, and the Moral Employments of Practical Reason: Jurgen Habermas Part 4. Postmodernism and Poststructuralism Introduction 20. The Notion of Expenditure: Georges Bataille 21. Substitution: Emmanuel Levinas 22. Extracts from The Writing of the Disaster: Maurice Blanchot 23. Extracts from The Differend: Jean-Francois Lyotard 24. On the Genealogy of Ethics: Michel Foucault 25. Passions: An Oblique Offering: Jacques Derrida 26. Private Irony and Liberal Hope: Richard Rorty 27. Extracts from The Coming Community: Giorgio Agamben Part 5. Psychoanalysis and Feminism Introduction 28. Extracts from Civilization and Its Discontents: Sigmund Freud 29. On the Moral Law, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis Jacques Lacan 30. Extracts from Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 31. Sexual Difference: Luce Irigaray 32. The Laugh of the Medusa: Helene Cixous 33. Women's Time: Julia Kristeva Select bibliography of major works in English Index
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CIN0415943302VG
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The Continental Ethics Reader by Matthew Calarco
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
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