Ethics and moral philosophy Books
Northwestern University Press For an Ontology of Morals A Critique of
Book SynopsisAssesses contemporary trends in ethical theory, including the deontological tradition dating back to Kant, the teleological tradition of the utilitarians, the analytic movement, and the existentialist-phenomenologist movement.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Ethics and Professionalism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book provides a functional analysis of what it means to be a profession or a professional society." * Journal of Mass Media Ethics *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: Professionalism and Morality PART 1. NORMATIVE CONSIDERATIONS 2. Ethical Premises 3. Utopian Vision and Piecemeal Reform PART 2. MODELS OF PROFESSIONS 4. Sociological Theories 5. The Functionalist Model 6. The Cloak of Ideology 7. The Subscapular Reality PART 3. STRUCTURAL CHANGE 8. Charters, Contracts, and Covenants 9. Reconstitution of Institutions 10. Professional Codes PART 4. THE PROFESSIONAL IDEAL 11. Ideals and Character 12. Paternalism and Client Autonomy 13. The Pedagogical Imperative 14. Professionalism Sans Professions Appendix Bibliogrpahy Index of Names Index of Subjects
£27.90
University of Pennsylvania Press Are Markets Moral
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Arthur M. Melzer and Steven J. Kautz’s timely and essential collection Are Markets Moral? investigates the morality of markets...a rare book with writings from some of the top thinkers in this field. Melzer and Kautz have successfully assembled a group of thought-provoking scholars who are deeply concerned about the state of our moral souls in a market society." * The Independent Revieew *"A unique collection of essays on morality and the market: no other volume I know of gathers as many different voices or as many concerns with non-Western economies." * Samuel Fleischacker, University of Illinois at Chicago *"Are Markets Moral? is a welcome project of interest not only to scholars and students in fields such as political science, philosophy, business, economics, and law but also to any reader interested in the relationship between capitalism and morality." * Ryan Patrick Hanley, Marquette University *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Xenophons Socratic Education Reason Religion and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sebell has written a penetrating analysis...[and]sets out a clear thesis that he (successfully) seeks to defend: Socrates encouraged promising students to arrive at his considered judgments about morality, politics, and theological matters by jokingly educating other less promising students in their presence. In the process, Sebell also guides the reader to those considered judgments." * Review of Politics *"Dustin Sebell is a master of close reading and reasoning. His novel treatment of Book IV of the Memorabilia shows how the Socratic understanding of justice and civic life serves as the basis for both political and natural philosophy." * Christopher Nadon, Claremont McKenna College *"Extraordinary in its precision, rigor, and power of argument, Dustin Sebell's book makes the persuasive case that through the mists of the joking education of the ridiculous Euthydemus we can see the heart of a serious Socratic education." * Devin Stauffer, University of Texas at Austin *
£56.10
University of Pennsylvania Press Human Rights as Human Independence
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MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer At the Centre of the Human Drama
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The Catholic University of America Press The Moral Philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand
Book SynopsisOffers the first full-fledged monograph on Dietrich von Hildebrand's moral philosophy available to date. This book will serve as a very good introduction not just to von Hildebrand´s moral philosophy but to his thought in general.
£57.38
The Catholic University of America Press Natural Law Ethics in Theory and Practice A
Book SynopsisBrings together a selection of essays of the late Joseph Boyle. Boyle was, with Germain Grisez and John Finnis, a founder and developer of the New Classical Natural Law Theory, arguably the most important development in Catholic moral philosophy of the twentieth century.
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The Catholic University of America Press Biomedicine Beatitude An Introduction to
Book SynopsisThis timely and up to date new edition of Biomedicine and Beatitude features an entirely new chapter on the ethics of bodily modification. It is also updated throughout to reflect the pontificate of Pope Francis, and recent concerns including ethical issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Catholic University of America Press A Catechism for Business Tough Ethical Questions
Book SynopsisThe context of a world emerging from a pandemic and new challenges to Christian faith and practice beckon for a refreshed look at pressing questions. Editors Andrew Abela and Joseph Capizzi offer this updated third edition which will incorporate material from both of these apostolic exhortations and the new encyclical.
£19.96
The Catholic University of America Press Nature as Guide Wittgenstein and the Renewal of
Book SynopsisWittgenstein influenced a generation of philosophers, with works such as Fergus Kerr's Theology After Wittgenstein showing the relevance of Wittgenstein's philosophy for contemporary theology. This book follows many of the insights of this generation of scholars to bring Wittgenstein into conversation with contemporary Catholic moral theology.
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Catholic University of America Press The Passion of Love in Thomas Aquinass Summa
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Rutgers University Press Reuse Misuse Abuse The Ethics of Audiovisual
Book SynopsisDocumentary scholars have long engaged with the responsibility of documentary makers in relation to their subjects. But what happens when this responsibility is set at a remove, when the recording already exists for repurposing? This book surveys films and videos that appropriate preexisting footage and theorizes the ethical implications.Trade Review"While much has been written on the legal, economic and aesthetic aspects of the uses of archival and appropriated audiovisual media, Reuse, Misuse, Abuse is the first in-depth study of the ethical dimension of these practices. In the age of fake news, remix and the limitless manipulability of digital imagery, Reuse, Misuse, Abuse brings together major questions and current debates around the ethical boundaries between revelation, distortion, and exploitation when original images and sounds are reworked and repurposed to create a 'layered gaze' of new meanings. Reuse, Misuse, Abuse is clearly written, well-argued and Baron’s astute readings of a wide range of recent film and media works show the complexities of the ethical and political stakes involved. This book will be of value to working filmmakers, artists and journalists and is essential reading in avant-garde, documentary film, and media studies, art history and journalism."— Jeffrey Skoller, author of Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde FilmTable of ContentsContents Introduction Reuse, Misuse, Abuse 1 (Re)exposing Intimate Traces 2 Speaking through Others 3 Dislocating the Hegemonic Gaze 4 Reframing the Perpetrator’s Gaze 5 Abusing Images Filmography Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Reuse Misuse Abuse The Ethics of Audiovisual
Book SynopsisIn contemporary culture, existing audiovisual recordings are constantly reused and repurposed for various ends, raising questions regarding the ethics of such appropriations. Reuse, Misuse and Abuse surveys a range of contemporary films and videos that appropriate preexisting footage and attempts to theorize their ethical implications.Trade Review"While much has been written on the legal, economic and aesthetic aspects of the uses of archival and appropriated audiovisual media, Reuse, Misuse, Abuse is the first in-depth study of the ethical dimension of these practices. In the age of fake news, remix and the limitless manipulability of digital imagery, Reuse, Misuse, Abuse brings together major questions and current debates around the ethical boundaries between revelation, distortion, and exploitation when original images and sounds are reworked and repurposed to create a 'layered gaze' of new meanings. Reuse, Misuse, Abuse is clearly written, well-argued and Baron’s astute readings of a wide range of recent film and media works show the complexities of the ethical and political stakes involved. This book will be of value to working filmmakers, artists and journalists and is essential reading in avant-garde, documentary film, and media studies, art history and journalism."— Jeffrey Skoller, author of Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde FilmTable of ContentsContents Introduction Reuse, Misuse, Abuse 1 (Re)exposing Intimate Traces 2 Speaking through Others 3 Dislocating the Hegemonic Gaze 4 Reframing the Perpetrator’s Gaze 5 Abusing Images Filmography Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
£105.40
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Value of Solitude The Ethics and
Book SynopsisMost people feel ambivalent about solitude, both loving and fearing it depending on how they experience being alone at certain points in their lives. In ""The Value of Solitude"", John Barbour explores some of the ways in which experiences of solitude, both positive and negative, have been interpreted as religiously significant.Trade ReviewThis is a powerful, comprehensive, and highly original book, impressive in terms of both its breadth of coverage and its depth of insight. It is a pleasure to read how vigorously the author speaks out for the moral and spiritual aspects of solitude in the age of a postmodern theory that allows little or no agency to a scattered and textually constituted subject. The Value of Solitude is a work of mature scholarship and probing critical reflection. - Eugene Stelzig, State University of New York at Geneseo, author of The Romantic Subject in Autobiography
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption
Book SynopsisTalking about the Victorian critic and public intellectual John Ruskin, this work recovers both Ruskin's critique of economic life and his public practice of moral imagination. It recasts interpretations of Ruskin's place in 19th-century literature and aesthetics, and challenges nostalgic diagnoses of the supposed historical loss of virtue ethics.Trade ReviewDavid Craig's great book on the perennial wisdom of John Ruskin reignites a much-needed dialogue between this sad genius and twenty-first-century cultural critics. This is a Ruskin for - and against - our time! - Cornel West, Princeton University
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New York University Press Virtue Nomos XXXIV 19 NOMOS American Society for
Book SynopsisIn the United States, there exists increasing uneasiness about the predominance of self-interest in both public and private life, growing fear about the fragmentation and privatization of American society. This title examines what is meant by virtue, analyzing various historical and analytical meanings of virtue, and notions of liberal virtue.
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John Wiley & Sons Fatal Freedom
Book SynopsisThis is a defence of every individual's right to choose a voluntary death. By maintaining statutes that determine that voluntary death is not legal, Thomas Szasz believes that our society is forfeiting one of its basic freedoms and causing the medical establishment to treat individuals inhumanely.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Reverence For Life The Ethics of Albert
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays builds on the contributions of Albert Schweitzer's philosophy of "Reverence for Life" as it pertains to our world today.Trade ReviewAn inherently impressive selection of profound essays by humanitarian Albert Schweitzer, enhanced by an eclectic variety of soul-searching commentaries on his thoughts and recommendations. . . . Highly recommended as life affirming, fundamental and thoughtfully constructed reading.
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John Wiley & Sons The Urgency of Indigenous Values
Book SynopsisIn this book, Philip Arnold utilizes a collaborative method, derived from the ‘Two-Row Wampum’ (1613) and his 40 year relationship with the Haudenosaunee, in exploring the urgent need to understand Indigenous values, support Indigenous Peoples, and to offer a way toward humanity’s survival in the face of ecological and environmental catastrophe.Trade ReviewWhat is distinctive about this book is the focus on Indigenous values and the ecological and human crisis we are living in." - David Carrasco, Harvard UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Collaborations in the Heartland of the Haudenosaunee - Determining an Interpretive Location 2. Indigenous Values 3. Paying Attention 4. Habitation 5. Exchange 6. Discovery and Indigeneity Epilogue Value Change for Survival Bibliography Index
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John Wiley & Sons The Urgency of Indigenous Values
Book SynopsisIn this book, Philip Arnold utilizes a collaborative method, derived from the ‘Two-Row Wampum’ (1613) and his 40 year relationship with the Haudenosaunee, in exploring the urgent need to understand Indigenous values, support Indigenous Peoples, and to offer a way toward humanity’s survival in the face of ecological and environmental catastrophe.Trade ReviewWhat is distinctive about this book is the focus on Indigenous values and the ecological and human crisis we are living in." - David Carrasco, Harvard University
£41.36
Facts On File Right to Die and Euthanasia Library in a Book
Book SynopsisThe United States, and indeed the Western world, is bitterly divided on the issues of the right to die and euthanasia. This work provides an overview of the history of this topic, as well as the opinions surrounding it, ranging from the trial of Socrates in ancient Greece to the battle over the fate of Terri Schiavo in Florida.
£38.21
The University of Alabama Press ReCreating Nature Science Technology and Human
Book SynopsisAddresses emerging biotechnologies with prodigious potential to benefit humankind but that are also fraught with ethical consequences. James Bradley guides discussions of the thorny issues resulting from the development of new biotechnologies. He also highlights the responsibilities of scientists to conduct research in an ethical manner.Trade Review“Building further on his remarkable scholarly work, James Bradley once again observes and dissects modern science and modern life in ways that challenge any kind of reader: student, scholar, research scientist, and most especially political decision makers. His interdisciplinary approach to studying the implications of biotechnology is the most accessible and useful, yet profound, of any academic work in this vast field. With characteristic good humor and patience, he confronts the fundamental issues within not only life sciences but moral and political philosophy as well. This is a necessary, although uncomfortable, wake-up call for humankind generally." - Timothy P. Terrel, Emory University School of Law and author of The Dimensions of Legal Reasoning: Developing Analytical Acuity from Law School to Law PracticeTable of Contents Abbreviations and Acronyms Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Cells, Molecules, Genes, and Nature Chapter 2: Embryos, Stem Cells, Genetic Enhancement, Genomics, and Synthetic Biology Chapter 3: Genetically Engineered Organisms Chapter 4: CRISPR and Life's Future Chapter 5: Nanotechnology, Life, and Nanoethics Chapter 6: Brains, Minds, and Neuroethics Chapter 7: Robots and Roboethics Chapter 8: Responsibilities and Living Well with Modern Biotechnologies Chapter 9: The Urgency of Now Appendix 1: The Central Dogma of Biology, CRISPR, and Gene Drive Appendix 2: Tools for Neuroscience and Clinical Neurology Appendix 3: Sources of Scientific Information for Non-Scientists References Index
£30.56
Ohio University Press Pursuing Justice in Africa Competing Imaginaries
Book SynopsisPursuing Justice in Africa focuses on visions of justice across the African continent, featuring essays that engage with topics at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship across a wide range of disciplines including activism, land tenure, international legal institutions, and post-conflict reconciliation.Trade Review“The diverse essays, many by African scholars, make this an essential collection on a topic just beginning to animate African studies. Outstanding in their well-balanced combination of ethnography and theory, they thoroughly contextualize their topic. The contrast between the local and the international alone that this well-thought-out book illuminates is valuable.”“This important volume asks us to step back and reconsider current processes for seeking justice—for righting wrongs, holding criminals accountable for their crimes, and fostering harmony—and to ask what should always have been the first question: what are the meanings individuals and communities attach to ‘justice’? Or, indeed, is there anything like ‘justice’ in Africa that can equate to the many, differing definitions of justice in the West?”“This is an impactful, powerful, well-written book for scholars who are deconstructing the concept of justice within an African context. This book adds an emboldened voice to the current literature and affirms the position that more needs to be done to address the inequalities within vulnerable groups such as women and children in Africa.” * African Studies Review *
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Ohio University Press The Affection in Between
Book SynopsisDrawing on phenomenology and everyday affective encounters of grieving, befriending, rearing, and bonding, Flakne warns against the disorientation and division implicit in what we think we mean by common sense. Instead, she invites us to relearn sensing together as key to an inevitable ethics of interembodiment.Trade Review“April N. Flakne’s book succeeds admirably to explain the complex terrain of intercorporeality in its many dimensions and in the way it grounds common sense in its intimate, social and political possibilities. A pleasure to read. Her style is intimate, but precise, clear without sacrificing complexity…. at times poetic.” -- Helen A. Fielding, author of Cultivating Perception through Artworks: Phenomenological Enactments of Ethics, Politics, and Culture
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Duke University Press The Hauerwas Reader
Book SynopsisStanley Hauerwas is one of the most widely read and oft-cited theologians writing today. A prolific lecturer and author, he has been at the forefront of key developments in contemporary theology, ranging from narrative theology to the "recovery of virtue." This book represents all the different periods and phases of Hauerwas' work.Trade Review“The Hauerwas Reader is of specific importance for the ethical discourses in the European context. Hauerwas forcefully presents a church-oriented social ethics in ways that help to rediscover the critical impact of a forgotten tradition on mainstream protestant ethics. Because of his innovative theological revision of the moral issues in the ethical discourse of our present time, the serious engagement of Hauerwas’s work is a must for European ethicists.”—Hans G. Ulrich, Institut für Systematische Theologie, University Erlangen-Nuernberg“Covering a range of ethical concerns from healthcare to warfare, these essays show again how Stanley Hauerwas brings together Evangelical and Catholic foundations for an ethics based on faith. The articles ring true, which is to say they speak first of Christ and only then of life in Him.”—Francis Cardinal George, Archbishop of Chicago“For decades now Stanley Hauerwas has been the most eloquent voice proclaiming the morality of particularism and the immorality of universalism. In a liberal culture that voice is heard as both alien and unreasonable, accusations Hauerwas no doubt cherishes.”—Stanley Fish, author of The Trouble with Principle“For many years Stanley Hauerwas has been lobbing peaceable bombs into the moral theologians’ playground, awakening them from their undogmatic slumbers to the importance of truthful action. The best of these bombs are here, in a wonderful arsenal of Hauerwas’s essays. Beware! Hauerwas is always challenging, provocative, illuminating, exasperating, disturbing, and fresh.”—Duncan Forrester, New College, The University of Edinburgh“If Kierkegaard knew Hauerwas, he would have seen that it is possible, after all, for one person to be a close friend of Jesus and of Socrates‚ at the same time. On behalf of all of us in the Abrahamite traditions, Hauerwas cracks open modern society’s lazy moral speech and lets us see, lying neglected inside it, God’s commanding word. In this way, he helps clear a space in contemporary America for Jews, and I trust Muslims, as well as Christians to narrate their stories of what God wants of us. If you don’t know Hauerwas yet, this fine collection is the way to begin, along with its wonderful introductions and guides to Hauerwas‚ work. If you do know him, well, then, you already know that each reading and re-reading will bring surprises. And blessings.”—Peter Ochs, Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies, University of Virginia“If you don’t know Hauerwas yet, this fine collection is the way to begin, along with its wonderful introductions and guides to Hauerwas’s work. If you do know him, well, then, you already know that each reading and re-reading will bring surprises. And blessings.”—Peter Ochs, Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies, University of Virginia“It would be hard to overestimate the value of Stanley Hauerwas’s contributions to theological conversation and religious life in today’s world. Alternately brilliant and exasperating, his work is indispensable in helping us find our way in a dark time. This wonderful reader is the best introduction to Hauerwas currently available.”—Robert N. Bellah, coauthor of Habits of the Heart“Stanley Hauerwas challenges, informs, provokes, and inspires anyone who reflects seriously on faith and life. The Hauerwas Reader is an invitation to accompany one of today’s most provocative and creative thinkers on a transforming theological journey beyond our comfortable idolatries.”—Bishop Kenneth L. Carder, Mississippi Episcopal Area, The United Methodist ChurchTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Part I: Editorial Introductions John Berkman, An Introduction to The Hauerwas Reader 3 William Cavanaugh, Stan the Man: A Thoroughly Biased Account of a completely Unobjective Person 17 Part II: Reframing Theological Ethics Who Are Christians? The Christian Story 1. How "Christian Ethics" Came to Be (1997) 37 2. On Keeping Theological Ethics Theological (1983) 51 3. A Retrospective Assessment of an "Ethics of Character": The Development of Hauerwas's Theological Project (1985, 2001) 75 4. Why the "Sectarian Temptation" Is a Misrepresentation: A Response to James Gustafson (1988) 90 5. Reforming Christian Social Ethics: Ten Theses (1981) 111 6. Jesus and the Social Embodiment of the Peaceable Kingdom (1983) 116 7. The Church as God's New Language (1986) 142 What Are Christians to Be? Christian Discipleship 8. Vision, Stories, and Character (1973, 2001) 165 9. A Story-Formed Community: Reflections on Watership Down (1981) 171 10. Self-Deception and Autobiography: Reflections on Speer's Inside the Third Reich, with David B. Burrell (1974) 200 11. Character, Narrative, and Growth in the Christian Life (1980) 221 12. The Interpretation of Scripture: Why Discipleship is Required (1993) 255 13. Casuistry in Context: The Need for Tradition (1995) 267 How Are Christians to Live? Discipleship Exemplified 14. Courage Exemplified, with Charles Pinches (1993) 287 15. Why Truthfulness Requires Forgiveness: A Commencement Address for Graduates of a College of the Church of the Second Chance (1992) 307 16. Peacemaking: The Virtue of the Church (1985) 318 17. Remembering as a Moral Task: The Challenge of the Holocaust (1981) 327 18. Practicing Patience: How Christians Should Be Sick, with Charles Pinches (1997) 348 Part III: New Intersections in Theological Ethics The Church's Witness: Christian Ethics after "Public Theology" 19. The Servant Community: Christian Social Ethics (1983) 371 20. Should War Be Eliminated? A Thought Experiment (1984) 392 21. On Being a Church Capable of Addressing a World at War: A Pacifist Response to the United Methodist Bishops' Pastoral In Defense of Creation (1988) 426 22. A Christian Critique of Christian America (1986) 459 23. Sex in Public: How Adventurous Christians Are Doing It (1978) 481 24. The Radical Hope in the Annunciation: Why Both Single and Married Christians Welcome Children (1998) 505 25. Why Gays (as a Group) Are Morally Superior to Christians (as a Group) (1993) 519 26. Christianity: It's Not a Religion, It's an Adventure (1991) 522 The Church's Hospitality: Christian Ethics after "Medical Ethics" 27. Salvation and Health: Why Medicine Needs the Church (1985) 539 28. Should Suffering Be Eliminated? What the Retarded Have to Teach Us (1984) 556 29. Memory, Community, and the Reasons for Living: Reflections on Suicide and Euthanasia, with Richard Bondi (1976) 577 30. Must a Patient Be a Person to Be a Patient? Or, My Uncle Charlie Is Not Much of a Person, But He Is Still My Uncle Charlie (1975) 596 31. Abortion, Theologically Understood (1991) 603 Michael G. Cartwright, Stanley Hauerwas's Essays in Theological Ethics: A Reader's Guide 623 Selected Annotated Bibliography 673 Scripture References 699 Name Index 701 Subject Index 709
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Duke University Press The Habit of Lying Sacrificial Studies in
Book SynopsisAn investigation of deceit and concealment that proposes a new theory of fiction, both as a new genre of literature and as a strategy in the social world.Trade Review“The Habit of Lying contributes importantly to a new understanding of a variety of issues and texts, literary and philosophical. Smyth deploys a flawlessly elegant style, ample range of research, analytic precision, and a restrained but confident sense of humor. The overall achievement is remarkable, even stunning.”—Andrew McKenna, Loyola University, Chicago“The Habit of Lying is a highly original, exceptionally sophisticated, continuously illuminating work of literary and cultural theory, and an intellectual feast of the first order. There seems no facet of Smyth’s topic that escapes his careful, immensely intelligent attention.”—Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part One. Philosophy 1. The Liar as Scapegoat: Rationality and Unanimity 2. The Analytics of Fiction Part Two. Literature 3. Lying for No Reason: Lying and Obscenity in Defoe 4. Lies and Truths: Mimetic-Sacrificial Falsification in Stendahl 5. Fundaments and Accidents: Mimesis and Mendacity in Molloy 6. The Violence of Fiction: Concealment and Sacrifice in Malone Dies and The Unnamable Part Three. Dress 7. Fashion Theory Conclusion Appendix: One Rene Girard and Paul de Man Notes Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press Against War
Book SynopsisArgues that European modernity has become inextricably linked with the experience of the warrior and conqueror. This title develops a powerful critique of modernity, and offers a critical response combining ethics, political theory, and ideas rooted in Christian and Jewish thought.Trade Review“[T]his is an innovative, passionate and provocative work that carefully synthesizes excellent close readings of several important thinkers. Against War is a significant contribution to the liberationist tradition and should attract attention across philosophy, theology, and ethnic studies.” - Mark Kjellman, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory“Against War is a tour-de-force study in ethics and the philosophy of liberation that brings together the European Jewish, Afro-Caribbean, and Latin American undersides of modern thought. Nelson Maldonado-Torres does this not for the sake of articulating an intellectual historicism or textual mastery but for the sake of illuminating his own theory of critical epistemic normativity. This long-awaited work, written by the best critical theorist of his generation in Caribbean and Latin American thought, is groundbreaking; it properly takes the ‘decolonial turn’ to another level as it inaugurates what the author aptly coins ‘decolonial ethics.’ I expect this work to receive much well deserved study for generations to come. It is a triumph.”—Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Judaic Studies, Temple University“Against War is a treatise on a new type of ethics: decolonial ethics. As we associate discourse ethics with Jürgen Habermas, the scholarly community will soon associate decolonial ethics with Nelson Maldonado-Torres.”—Paget Henry, author of Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy“[T]his is an innovative, passionate and provocative work that carefully synthesizes excellent close readings of several important thinkers. Against War is a significant contribution to the liberationist tradition and should attract attention across philosophy, theology, and ethnic studies.” -- Mark Kjellman * Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory *Table of ContentsAbout the series ix Preface xi Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Titles xvii Introduction: Western Modernity and the Paradigm of War 1 Part I. Searching for Ethics in a Violent World: A Jewish Response to the Paradigm of War 1. From Liberalism to Hitlerism: Tracing the Origins of Violence and War 23 2. From Fraternity to Altericity, or Reason in the Service of Love 51 Part II. Of Masters and Slaves, or Frantz Fanon and the Ethico-Political Struggle for Non-sexist Human Fraternity 3. God and the Other in the Self-Recognition of Imperial Man 93 4. Recognition from Below: The Meaning of the Cry and the Gift of the Self in the Struggle for Recognition 122 Part III. From the Ethical to the Geopolitical: A Latin American Response to Coloniality, Neoliberal Globalization, and War 5. Enrique Dussel's Ethics and the Philosophy of Liberation 163 6. Enrique Dussel's Contribution to the De-colonial Turn: From the Critique of Modernity to Transmodernity 187 Conclusion: Beyond the Paradigm of War 237 Notes 255 Bibliography 313 Index 335
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Duke University Press Competing Responsibilities
Book SynopsisWith a mix of ethnography and social theory, the contributors to Competing Responsibilities challenge contemporary understandings of responsibility in political, social, and ethical life by showing how neoliberalism's reification of the "responsible subject" masks the myriad forms of individual and collective responsibility that people engage with in their everyday lives.Trade Review“Competing Responsibilities makes a valuable theoretical and empirical contribution to social scientific understandings of responsibility at a key moment in the world’s unfolding. . . . This is an accomplished collection with a sustained argument running through it, thus offering substantive and always eloquent interpretations of responsibility and creating a text that has broad-ranging value to the academy and indeed, beyond.” -- Fiona Murphy * Social Anthropology *"Competing Responsibilities builds on the centrality of ‘responsibilization’ in neoliberal technologies of governance. . . . This insightful collection will provide food for thought for both researchers and advanced students." -- John Gledhill * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Competing Responsibilities: Reckoning Personal Responsibility, Care for the Other, and the Social Contract in Contemporary Life / Susanna Trnka and Catherine Trundle 1 Part I. Theoretical Departures 1. Making Us Resilient: Responsible Citizens for Uncertain Times / Nikolas Rose and Filippa Lentzos 27 2. Attunement: Rethinking Responsibility / Jarrett Zigon 49 Part II. States, Companies, and Communities 3. Reciprocal Responsibilities: Struggles over (New and Old) Social Contracts, Environmental Pollution, and Childhood Asthma in the Czech Republic / Susanna Trnka 71 4. Audit Culture and the Politics of Responsibility: Beyond Neoliberal Responsibilization? / Cris Shore 96 5. From Corporate Social Responsibility to Creating Shared Value: Contesting Responsibilization and the Mining Industry / Jessica M. Smith 118 Part III. Violence 6. "The Information Is Out There": Transparency, Responsibility, and the Missing in Cyprus / Elizabeth Anne Davis 135 7. Justice and Its Doubles: Producing Postwar Responsibilities in Sierra Leone / Rosalind Shaw 156 Part IV. Intimate Ties 8. The Politics of Responsibility in HIV / Barry D. Adam 181 9. Responsibilities of the Third Age and the Intimate Politics of Sociality in Poland / Jessica Robbins-Ruszowski 193 10. Genetic Bystanders: Familial Responsibility and the State's Accountability to Veterans of Nuclear Tests / Catherine Trundle 213 References 233 Contributors 263 Index 267
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Duke University Press The Beneficiary
Book SynopsisReckoning with one's role in perpetuating systematic inequality, Bruce Robbins examines the implications of a humanitarianism in which the prosperous are the both the cause and the beneficiaries of the abhorrent conditions they seek to remedy.Trade Review"In The Beneficiary, Bruce Robbins wants to make room for the note of guilt in our songs of gratitude. Who is a beneficiary? Robbins’s answer is that it is probably you. . . . Perhaps in the future tallying up the planetary cost of national happiness will become so painful we’ll give up that thought experiment altogether. But if Robbins has his way, we’ll not only still be thinking globally — we’ll live in a world that makes doing so tolerable." -- Christina Lupton * Los Angeles Review of Books *"The Beneficiary succeeds brilliantly in focusing its readers on the urgencies of our time." -- Michael Rothberg * Contemporary Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Starving Child 15 2. You Acquiesce In It: George Orwell on the System 33 3. A Short History of Commodity Recognition 51 4. The Nation-State as Agent of Cosmopolitanism 75 5. Naomi Klein's Love Story 93 6. Life Will Win 117 Conclusion: You Can't Handle the Truth 139 Notes 155 Bibliography 169 Index 177
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Duke University Press Human Rights and the Care of the Self
Book SynopsisExamining human rights discourse from the French Revolution to the present, Alexandre Lefebvre turns common assumptions about human rights—that its main purpose is to enable, protect, and care for those in need—on their heads, showing how the value of human rights lies in its support of ethical self-care.Trade Review"Human Rights and the Care of the Self is a beautifully written, erudite and teacherly (in the best sense – not dry and didactic but gently thought-provoking) account of a range of thinkers and a powerful re-reading of the concept of human rights itself." -- Ben Golder * Contemporary Political Theory *"This very well written and provocative book is an important contribution to the history and philosophy of human rights, and several of the chapters could stand alone as insightful introductions to major human rights thinkers and controversies in the field." -- William Paul Simmons * Perspectives on Politics *“In a world full of causes and distractions, why do we care about international human rights? There are many explanations for the dramatic rise of human rights in the second half of the twentieth century. They range from the naïve to the cynical. Few theoretical accounts manage to be as shrewd and yet at the same time as stirring.” -- James Loeffler * Journal of Human Rights Practice *“Lefebvre's learned and original book creates a new itinerary within Western political and ethical thought.... Human Rights and the Care of the Self presents a valuable, thought-provoking argument that could enable educators and students to articulate their various commitments to human rights in complex and historically informed ways.” -- Sarah Winter * symploke *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Care of the Self 9 2. The Juridical Subject as Ethical Subject: Wollstonecraft on the Rights of Man 25 3. Critique of Human Rights and Care of the Self 47 4. Human Rights as Spiritual Exercises: Tocqueville in America 61 5. Human Rights as a Way of Life: Bergson on Love and Joy 85 6. On Human Rights Criticism 105 7. An Ethic of Resistance I: Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 119 8. An Ethic of Resistance II: Malik and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 141 9. Human Rights Education 165 Conclusion 185 Notes 195 Bibliography 225 Index 245
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Duke University Press Human Rights and the Care of the Self
Book SynopsisExamining human rights discourse from the French Revolution to the present, Alexandre Lefebvre turns common assumptions about human rights—that its main purpose is to enable, protect, and care for those in need—on their heads, showing how the value of human rights lies in its support of ethical self-care.Trade Review"Human Rights and the Care of the Self is a beautifully written, erudite and teacherly (in the best sense – not dry and didactic but gently thought-provoking) account of a range of thinkers and a powerful re-reading of the concept of human rights itself." -- Ben Golder * Contemporary Political Theory *"This very well written and provocative book is an important contribution to the history and philosophy of human rights, and several of the chapters could stand alone as insightful introductions to major human rights thinkers and controversies in the field." -- William Paul Simmons * Perspectives on Politics *“In a world full of causes and distractions, why do we care about international human rights? There are many explanations for the dramatic rise of human rights in the second half of the twentieth century. They range from the naïve to the cynical. Few theoretical accounts manage to be as shrewd and yet at the same time as stirring.” -- James Loeffler * Journal of Human Rights Practice *“Lefebvre's learned and original book creates a new itinerary within Western political and ethical thought.... Human Rights and the Care of the Self presents a valuable, thought-provoking argument that could enable educators and students to articulate their various commitments to human rights in complex and historically informed ways.” -- Sarah Winter * symploke *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Care of the Self 9 2. The Juridical Subject as Ethical Subject: Wollstonecraft on the Rights of Man 25 3. Critique of Human Rights and Care of the Self 47 4. Human Rights as Spiritual Exercises: Tocqueville in America 61 5. Human Rights as a Way of Life: Bergson on Love and Joy 85 6. On Human Rights Criticism 105 7. An Ethic of Resistance I: Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 119 8. An Ethic of Resistance II: Malik and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 141 9. Human Rights Education 165 Conclusion 185 Notes 195 Bibliography 225 Index 245
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University of Pittsburgh Press Dancing Into Darkness
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University of Pittsburgh Press Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents
Book SynopsisAnthropocentrism and Its Discontents is the first-ever comprehensive examination of views of animals in the history of Western philosophy, from Homeric Greece to the twentieth century.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Commodification of Academic Research The
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University of Pittsburgh Press Metaethics Egoism and Virtue Studies in Ayn Rands Normative Theory Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Ethics of Creativity Beauty Morality and Nature in a Processive Cosmos
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University of Pittsburgh Press Corporal Compassion
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Fordham University Press Freedom of Choice
Book Synopsis"A fine example of the reliable research and precise description so long associated with Simon's writings."-Library JournalTrade Review"A fine example of the reliable research and precise description so long associated with Simon's writings." -Library Journal
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Fordham University Press Evil and a Good God
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Fordham University Press Evil and a Good God
Book SynopsisTrade Review"... a comprehensive review and criticism of the major deductive and inductive arguments against theism [and] a morally sufficient reason for the presence of evil." -Religious Studies Review
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Fordham University Press Nature and Spirit An Essay in Ecstatic
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Fordham University Press Nature and Spirit An Essay in Ecstatic
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Fordham University Press Killing and Letting Die
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Fordham University Press Ethical Hermeneutics Rationalist Enrique Dussels
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Fordham University Press Reason Experience and God John E. Smith in
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Fordham University Press Natural Law and Practical Reason
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Fordham University Press Flight of the Gods Philosophical Perspectives on
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