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Temple University Press,U.S. Suspect Citizens
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study of how concepts of virtue and vice are used to deny American women full political rightsTrade Review"Boryczka addresses categories of virtue and vice that operate to render women 'suspect citizens' in the American political script... The book contains many interesting and provocative juxtapositions. Summing Up: Highly recommended."--Choice, May 2013 "Suspect Citizens is a rich conceptual history tracing the binary opposition between virtue and vice that has structured the gendered nature of citizenship in American political thought... The book successfully weaves together contemporary political issues with their deep and direct roots in historical political ideas and debates."--New Political Science, Vol. 35, Issue 2 "Throughout her analysis the author succeeds in identifying the emergence of the virtue and vice concept, its relation to other theoretical concepts and political arguments, and how the concept is used by political actors to achieve their political goals. This book is necessary reading for anyone interested in political and feminist theories." - Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Moral Guardians but Suspect Citizens: Women, Virtue, and Vice in the Western Political Imaginary Defining Virtue and Vice Virtue and Vice in Contemporary Political Theory: Displacing Women and Politics Methodological Matters The Plan of the Book 1 | Conceptual Locations: Where Virtue, Vice, and Citizenship Intersect Virtue and Vice in Ancient and Medieval Western Political Thought Modern Theoretical Groundings: Alexis de Tocqueville and Mary Wollstonecraft in America Suspect Citizenship: At the Intersection of Morality and Politics 2 | The Religious Roots of Moral Guardianship: American Women as the Daughters of Eve and Zion The Puritan Point of Emergence: Infinite and Finite Virtue and Vce The Infinite as a Necessary Problem: Mary Daly's Gyn/Ecology and Pure Lust Martyrs for Democracy: The Sacred, Profane, and Double Burden of Moral Responsibility 3 | "Back to Virtue" Backlash Politics: Privileging Irresponsibility Debating Women's Education and Moral Guardianship in the Republican Era Debating Contemporary Sex Education: Resurrecting the Daughters of Eve and Zion Scapegoats for Democracy: Trust, Blame, and Irresponsibility in American Citizenship 4 | Suspect Citizenship: From Lowell Mill Girls to Lesbian Feminists and Sadomasochism Lowell Mill Girl Debates: The Trap of True Womanhood The Rebels: Weakening the Bonds of Virtue Lesbian Feminist S/M Debates: The Moral Bondage of Moral Guardianship Fantasy and Imagination in Lesbian S/M and Contemporary Feminist Ethics Suspect Citizens as Innovative Ideologists 5 | "Ozzie and Harriet" Morality: Resetting Liberal Democracy's Moral Compass The Separate Spheres Paradox: Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America A "Curl Back" to Virtue: Neutralizing Gender in Contemporary Morality Habitual Inattention to Democracy: The Power of Vice 6 | The Legacy of Virtue and Vice: Mary Wollstonecraft and Contemporary Feminist Care Ethics Sex, Sexuality, and Suspicion in Mary Wollstonecraft's Political Thought Moral Perfectionism in Feminist Care Ethics: The Problems of Infinite Virtue, Patriarchal Moral Standards, and Omitting Vice Parochialism: Practice and the Limits of Finite Virtues The Vice of Omission: Sex and Sexuality in Feminist Care Ethics Conclusion: Beyond Virtue and Vice: Toward a Democratic Feminist Ethics The Frontiers of Collective Responsibility: Toward a Democratic Feminist Ethics of Belonging Notes References Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Suspect Citizens
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study of how concepts of virtue and vice are used to deny American women full political rightsTrade Review"Boryczka addresses categories of virtue and vice that operate to render women 'suspect citizens' in the American political script... The book contains many interesting and provocative juxtapositions. Summing Up: Highly recommended."--Choice, May 2013 "Suspect Citizens is a rich conceptual history tracing the binary opposition between virtue and vice that has structured the gendered nature of citizenship in American political thought... The book successfully weaves together contemporary political issues with their deep and direct roots in historical political ideas and debates."--New Political Science, Vol. 35, Issue 2 "Throughout her analysis the author succeeds in identifying the emergence of the virtue and vice concept, its relation to other theoretical concepts and political arguments, and how the concept is used by political actors to achieve their political goals. This book is necessary reading for anyone interested in political and feminist theories." - Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Moral Guardians but Suspect Citizens: Women, Virtue, and Vice in the Western Political Imaginary Defining Virtue and Vice Virtue and Vice in Contemporary Political Theory: Displacing Women and Politics Methodological Matters The Plan of the Book 1 | Conceptual Locations: Where Virtue, Vice, and Citizenship Intersect Virtue and Vice in Ancient and Medieval Western Political Thought Modern Theoretical Groundings: Alexis de Tocqueville and Mary Wollstonecraft in America Suspect Citizenship: At the Intersection of Morality and Politics 2 | The Religious Roots of Moral Guardianship: American Women as the Daughters of Eve and Zion The Puritan Point of Emergence: Infinite and Finite Virtue and Vce The Infinite as a Necessary Problem: Mary Daly's Gyn/Ecology and Pure Lust Martyrs for Democracy: The Sacred, Profane, and Double Burden of Moral Responsibility 3 | "Back to Virtue" Backlash Politics: Privileging Irresponsibility Debating Women's Education and Moral Guardianship in the Republican Era Debating Contemporary Sex Education: Resurrecting the Daughters of Eve and Zion Scapegoats for Democracy: Trust, Blame, and Irresponsibility in American Citizenship 4 | Suspect Citizenship: From Lowell Mill Girls to Lesbian Feminists and Sadomasochism Lowell Mill Girl Debates: The Trap of True Womanhood The Rebels: Weakening the Bonds of Virtue Lesbian Feminist S/M Debates: The Moral Bondage of Moral Guardianship Fantasy and Imagination in Lesbian S/M and Contemporary Feminist Ethics Suspect Citizens as Innovative Ideologists 5 | "Ozzie and Harriet" Morality: Resetting Liberal Democracy's Moral Compass The Separate Spheres Paradox: Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America A "Curl Back" to Virtue: Neutralizing Gender in Contemporary Morality Habitual Inattention to Democracy: The Power of Vice 6 | The Legacy of Virtue and Vice: Mary Wollstonecraft and Contemporary Feminist Care Ethics Sex, Sexuality, and Suspicion in Mary Wollstonecraft's Political Thought Moral Perfectionism in Feminist Care Ethics: The Problems of Infinite Virtue, Patriarchal Moral Standards, and Omitting Vice Parochialism: Practice and the Limits of Finite Virtues The Vice of Omission: Sex and Sexuality in Feminist Care Ethics Conclusion: Beyond Virtue and Vice: Toward a Democratic Feminist Ethics The Frontiers of Collective Responsibility: Toward a Democratic Feminist Ethics of Belonging Notes References Index
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University of Toronto Press Health Inequality
Book SynopsisIn the last decade, there has been an explosion of academic interest in health inequality. Although it is seldom stated explicitly, research into this area is inexorably tied to questions of morality and ethics. In this study, Yukiko Asada seeks to acknowledge the role that morality and theories of justice play in health inequality research, and to articulate the moral philosophy underlying this field of inquiry.Comprised of two distinct parts, Health Inequality first proposes a framework for measuring health inequality reflecting moral concern, then goes on to show how this framework can be applied to quantitative study. Using a specific time period as a case study, Asada questions whether or not health equity improved in the United States between 1990 and 1995. She suggests that the question of whether, and by how much, health inequity changed in the United States is dependent on the morality and accompanying empirical strategy used in the analysis.A unique blend of
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University of Toronto Press Modernity and Responsibility
Book SynopsisWhat is it to be modern? How does the world look through the eyes of a modern? Is it possible to bring the sensibility of the non-modern to bear on the world around one? If so, how?The essays in this volume consider these and a number of related questions in an attempt to determine how a thoughtful individual can understand and act justly in the world of modernity. The authors stand firmly and deeply in modernity, but they are profoundly aware of the classical and the Judaeo-Christian traditions that the modern world has largely discarded and of non-Western traditions that ask profound questions about the nature of man and his role in the universe. They are willing to ask difficult and critical questions about traditional thought and about the assumptions, often tacit, of modernity.The essays explore the problematic nature of the concept of transcendence in modern social and political philosophy. They start with an analysis of Spinoza's use of biblical criticism to
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University of Toronto Press The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty
Book SynopsisAccording to the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, a world that has lost sight of beauty is a world riddled with skepticism, moral and aesthetic relativism, conflicting religious worldviews, and escalating ecological crises. In The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty, John D. Dadosky uses Kierkegaard and Nietzsche’s negative aesthetics to outline the context of that loss, and presents an argument for reclaiming beauty as a metaphysical property of being. Inspired by Bernard Lonergan’s philosophy of consciousness, Dadosky presents a philosophy of beauty that is grounded in contemporary Thomistic thought. Responding to Balthasar, he argues for a concept of beauty that can be experienced, understood, judged, created, contemplated, and even loved. Deeply engaged with the work of Aquinas, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kant, among others, The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty will be essential reading for those interested in contemporaryTrade Review"...Dadosky's effort to work out a philosophy of beauty on the basis of Lonergan's thought, to enter into dialogue with significant figures, and to re-establish the transcendental status of beauty in a contemporary context amounts to an original and momentous achievement." -- Paul St. Amour American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly "Within the boundaries of the wider Lonergan project, Dadosky's argument is nuanced, differentiated, and, so far as I can discern, beyond reproach...students of theological aesthetics in particular will profit from the expositions and arguments he offers therein. The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty is harmonious, well-integrated, and very clear. That is, in the specific terms Dadosky designates, it is a beautiful piece of work." -- Reid B. Locklin Toronto Journal of Theology "John Dadosky has written a very good book on an overlooked, but important, topic... Using the tools of Lonergan's generalized empirical method, Dadosky has made the case for the objectivity of aesthetic judgments and by extension for the recovery of beauty as a transcendental... The result is a beautifully written book that's hints at much more to come from this author." -- Michael Shute Studies in ReligionTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 The Eclipse of Beauty and Its Recovery * 1.1 Introduction * 1.2 The Achievement of Thomistic Metaphysics and its Demise * 1.2.1 A Post-Kantian Transposition of Thomistic Metaphysics * 1.3 Considerations for a Contemporary Philosophy of Beauty * 1.4 Lonergan's Philosophy and Hermeneutics: A Brief Overview * 1.5 Conclusion 2 Every Being is Beautiful * 2.1 Beauty as a Transcendental Property of Being * 2.1.1 The Development of Transcendental Beauty * 2.1.2 Aquinas and Transcendental Beauty? * 2.1.3 The Fourth Period * 2.2 Beauty: A Thomistic Interpretation * 2.2.1 The Conditions of Beauty * 2.2.2 Further Questions * 2.2.3 Perception of Beauty * 2.2.4 Beauty and Art * 2.3. Beauty: A Lonergan Approach? 3 Violence and the Loss of Beauty * 3.1 Displacement and Distortion of Beauty * 3.2 Nietzsche's Aesthetics * 3.3 Girard's critique of Nietzsche * 3.3.1 Dionysus and the Crucified * 3.3.2 Culpability in the Collective Murder * 3.3.3 Dionysus as a Mimicked Distortion of Christ * 3.4 A Re-orientation of Nietzchean Aesthetics? * 3.5 Conclusion 4 Recovering Beauty in the Subject * 4.1 Introduction * 4.2 Kierkegaard's Spheres of Existence * 4.3 Balthasar's Critique: A Closer Examination * 4.4 The Existential Spheres and Intentional Consciousness * 4.5 Conclusion 5 The End of Aesthetic Experience? * 5.1 Introduction * 5.2 The Loss of Aesthetic Experience * 5.2.1 Major Post-Kantian Approaches to Aesthetic Experience * 5.2.2 Shusterman: "The End of Aesthetic Experience" * 5.3 Lonergan and Aesthetic Experience * 5.3.1 The Unrestricted Desire for Beauty * 5.3.2 Freedom from Instrumentality * 5.3.3 Elemental Meaning * 5.3.4 Ulterior Significance and 'Surplus of Meaning' * 5.3.5 Transformative and Distortive aspects of Aesthetic Experience * 5.3.6 Lonergan and Shusterman * 5.4 The Sensible and Intellectual Perception and Apprehension of Beauty * 5.5 Aesthetic Experience and the Sublime * 5.1 Brief History of the Sublime * 5.2 The Sublime as Experienced * 5.6 Conclusion 6 The Intelligibility of Beauty * 6.1 Introduction * 6.2 Beauty and Architecture: The example of Christopher Alexander * 6.2.1Alexander's 15 principles * 6.2.2 Alexander's principles and Aquinas * 6.3 The Intelligibility of Beauty in Lonergan's Theory of Consciousness * 6.4 Conclusion 7 Judgments of Beauty * 7.1 Introduction * 7.2 Aesthetic Judgments in Kant * 7.2.1 Four Moments of Aesthetic Judgments * 7.3 Lonergan and Judgment * 7.3.1 'Value' in Method in Theology * 7.4 Judging Beauty for Lonergan * 7.4.1 A Lonergan Appropriation of Kant's Four Moments * 7.4.2 Beauty and the Preferential Scales of Values * 7.4.3 Three Moments of Beauty * 7.4.4 Is Beauty distinct from Goodness? * 7.5 Concluding Comments 8 Creating, Contemplating and Loving Beauty * 8.1 Introduction * 8.2 The Aesthetic/Dramatic Operator * 8.3 Philosophy of Art * 8.3.1Aesthetic and Artistic patterns of experience * 8.3.2 Art as Meaning * 8.3.3Developing Lonergan on Art * 8.3.4 Summing up: Lonergan on Art * 8.4 Life and Beauty * 8.4.1Ethical living * 8.5 Contemplating Beauty * 8.6 Loving Beauty * 8.7 Beauty and God * 7.1 From Aesthetic Experience to the Beauty of God * 8.8 Conclusion 9 Philosophy for a Theology of Beauty * 9.1 Introduction * 9.2 A Summary and Overview * 9.3 Towards a Theology of Beauty * 9.4 Conclusion
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University of Toronto Press Art before the Law
Book SynopsisEver since Plato expelled the poets from his ideal state, the ethics of art has had to confront philosophy's denial of art's morality. In Art before the Law, Ruth Ronen proposes a new outlook on the ethics of art by arguing that art insists on this tradition of denial, affirming its singular ethics through negativity.Table of ContentsIntroduction: By Way of the Law Chapter 1: By Way of Negation Chapter 2: By Way of Beauty Chapter 3: By Way of Truth Chapter 4: By Way of Deception - With Efrat Biberman (Holon Institute of Technology, Design) Chapter 5: By Way of Prohibition Conclusion
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory
Book SynopsisBuilding on the strengths of the highly successful first edition, the extensively updated Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory presents a complete state-of-the-art survey, written by an international team of leading moral philosophers. A new edition of this successful and highly regarded Guide, now reorganized and updated with the addition of significant new material Includes 21 essays written by an international team of leading philosophers Extensive, substantive essays develop the main arguments of all the leading viewpoints in ethical theory Essays new to this edition cover evolution and ethics, capability ethics, virtues and consequences, and the implausibility of virtue ethics Table of ContentsNotes on Editors and Contributors vii Introduction 1Hugh LaFollette and Ingmar Persson Part I Metaethics and Moral Epistemology 1 Moral Realism 17Michael Smith 2 Relativism 43Simon Blackburn 3 Moral Agreement 59Derek Parfit 4 Divine Command Theory 81Philip L. Quinn 5 Moral Intuition 103Jeff McMahan Part II Factual Background of Ethics 6 Ethics and Evolution 123Richard Joyce 7 Psychological Egoism 148Elliott Sober 8 The Science of Ethics 169Ron Mallon and John M. Doris 9 The Relevance of Responsibility to Morality 197Ingmar Persson Part III Normative Ethics 10 Act-Utilitarianism 221R.G. Frey 11 Rule-Consequentialism 238Brad Hooker 12 Nonconsequentialism 261F.M. Kamm 13 Intuitionism 287David McNaughton and Piers Rawling 14 Kantianism 311Thomas E. Hill Jr 15 Contractarianism 332Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 16 Rights 354L.W. Sumner 17 Libertarianism 373Jan Narveson 18 Virtue Ethics 394Michael Slote 19 Capability Ethics 412Ingrid Robeyns 20 Feminist Ethics 433Alison M. Jaggar 21 Continental Ethics 461William R. Schroeder Index 487
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Ethics Technology and Engineering
Book SynopsisFeaturing a wide range of international case studies, Ethics, Technology, and Engineering presents a unique and systematic approach for engineering students to deal with the ethical issues that are increasingly inherent in engineering practice. Utilizes a systematic approach to ethical case analysis -- the ethical cycle -- which features a wide range of real-life international case studies including the Challenger Space Shuttle, the Herald of Free Enterprise and biofuels. Covers a broad range of topics, including ethics in design, risks, responsibility, sustainability, and emerging technologies Can be used in conjunction with the online ethics tool Agora (http://www.ethicsandtechnology.com) Provides engineering students with a clear introduction to the main ethical theories Includes an extensive glossary with key terms Table of ContentsAcknowledgments x Introduction 1 1 The Responsibilities of Engineers 6 1.1 Introduction 7 1.2 Responsibility 9 1.3 Passive Responsibility 10 1.4 Active Responsibility and the Ideals of Engineers 13 1.5 Engineers versus Managers 21 1.6 The Social Context of Technological Development 25 1.7 Chapter Summary 28 Study Questions 29 Discussion Questions 30 2 Codes of Conduct 31 2.1 Introduction 32 2.2 Codes of Conduct 33 2.3 Possibilities and Limitations of Codes of Conduct 43 2.4 Codes of Conduct in an International Context 54 2.5 Chapter Summary 61 Study Questions 62 Discussion Questions 63 3 Normative Ethics 65 3.1 Introduction 67 3.2 Ethics and Morality 70 3.3 Descriptive and Normative Judgments 71 3.4 Points of Departure: Values, Norms, and Virtues 72 3.5 Relativism and Absolutism 75 3.6 Ethical Theories 77 3.7 Utilitarianism 78 3.8 Kantian Theory 89 3.9 Virtue Ethics 95 3.10 Care Ethics 102 3.11 Applied Ethics 105 3.12 Chapter Summary 106 Study Questions 107 Discussion Questions 108 4 Normative Argumentation 109 4.1 Introduction 110 4.2 Valid Arguments 113 4.3 Deductive and Non-Deductive Arguments 116 4.4 Arguments in Ethical Theories 118 4.5 Fallacies 127 4.6 Chapter Summary 131 Study Questions 131 Discussion Questions 132 5 The Ethical Cycle 133 5.1 Introduction 134 5.2 Ill-Structured Problems 135 5.3 The Ethical Cycle 137 5.4 An Example 147 5.5 Collective Moral Deliberation and Social Arrangements 155 5.6 Chapter Summary 157 Study Questions 158 Discussion Questions 159 6 Ethical Questions in the Design of Technology 161 6.1 Introduction 163 6.2 Ethical Issues During the Design Process 165 6.3 Trade-offs and Value Conflicts 177 6.4 Regulatory Frameworks: Normal and Radical Design 190 6.5 Chapter Summary 194 Study Questions 195 Discussion Questions 197 7 Designing Morality 198Peter-Paul Verbeek 7.1 Introduction 199 7.2 Ethics as a Matter of Things 200 7.3 Technological Mediation 201 7.4 Moralizing Technology 205 7.5 Designing Mediations 211 7.6 Chapter Summary 214 Study Questions 215 Discussion Questions 216 8 Ethical Aspects of Technical Risks 217 8.1 Introduction 219 8.2 Definitions of Central Terms 221 8.3 The Engineer’s Responsibility for Safety 223 8.4 Risk Assessment 225 8.5 When are Risks Acceptable? 228 8.6 Risk Communication 236 8.7 Dealing with Uncertainty and Ignorance 237 8.8 Chapter Summary 244 Study Questions 245 Discussion Questions 247 9 The Distribution of Responsibility in Engineering 249 9.1 Introduction 250 9.2 The Problem of Many Hands 252 9.3 Responsibility and the Law 258 9.4 Responsibility in Organizations 263 9.5 Responsibility Distributions and Technological Designs 267 9.6 Chapter Summary 272 Study Questions 273 Discussion Questions 274 10 Sustainability, Ethics, and Technology 277Michiel Brumsen 10.1 Introduction 278 10.2 Environmental Ethics? 280 10.3 Environmental Problems 281 10.4 Sustainable Development 283 10.5 Can a Sustainable Society be Realized? 289 10.6 Engineers and Sustainability 291 10.7 Chapter Summary 298 Study Questions 299 Discussion Questions 300 Appendix I: Engineering Qualifications and Organizations in a Number of Countries 301 Appendix II: NSPE Code of Ethics for Engineers 307 Appendix III: FEANI Position Paper on Code of Conduct: Ethics and Conduct of Professional Engineers 313 Appendix IV: Shell Code of Conduct 315 Appendix V: DSM Values and Whistle Blowing Policy 320 Glossary 329 References 340 Index of Cases 351 Index 352
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Natural Law Reader
Book SynopsisThe Natural Law Reader presents a representative and wide-ranging series of readings related to the classical Natural Law tradition in the modern world, which draws upon the metaphysical and ethical categories first put forth and developed by Aristotle and Aquinas.Trade Review“This volume is a fine addition to an increasing number of books on the subject. Its conception reflects the renewal of interest in the natural law tradition over the past half-century or so. In popularising and making readily accessible a vast canon of essays for the benefit of the seasoned academic as much as the newcomer in the fields of jurisprudence, ethics, and political philosophy, the editors have produced an anthology which, I am confident, will serve as an invaluable contribution to that renewal.” (New Blackfriars, 9 April 2015)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements xi 1 General Introduction 1 2 Historical Readings 5 2.1 Ancient 7 Introduction 7 2.1.1 Heraclitus, Fragments 11 2.1.2 Sophocles, Antigone 13 2.1.3 The Hippocratic Oath 14 2.1.4 Plato, Apology 15 2.1.5 Plato, Crito 22 2.1.6 Plato, Phaedo 28 2.1.7 Plato, Laws 34 2.1.8 Plato, Republic 40 2.1.9 Aristotle, Rhetoric and Nicomachean Ethics 48 2.1.10 Aristotle, Politics 63 2.1.11 Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations 66 2.1.12 Cicero, The Republic, Book III 69 2.1.13 Cicero, The Laws 71 2.1.14 The Holy Bible, Romans 2: 1–16 80 2.2 Early Christian and Medieval 81 Introduction 81 2.2.1 Tertullian, Against Marcion and Apologeticus 86 2.2.2 Justinian, The Institutes 90 2.2.3 St. Augustine 93 Confessions 93 On Eighty Three Diverse Questions 94 Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount 94 De libero arbitrio (The Free Choice of the Will) 95 De Trinitate 95 25th Sermon on Psalm 118 96 Letter 157 (Epist., 157) 96 2.2.4 St. Augustine, The City of God 97 2.2.5 Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles (Of God and His Creatures) 107 2.2.6 St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica 113 2.2.7 Ibn Sina, A Treatise on Love 137 2.2.8 Ibn Rushd, On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy 146 2.2.9 Moses Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed 155 2.2.10 Moses Maimonides, The Eight Chapters of Maimonides on Ethics (Shemonah Perakim) 158 2.3 Early Modern 167 Introduction 167 2.3.1 Francisco de Vitoria, De Indis et De Iure Belli Relectiones 173 2.3.2 Francisco Suarez, De Legibus 182 2.3.3 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan 190 2.3.4 Hugo Grotius, On the Law of War and Peace (De Jure Belli ac Pacis) 195 2.3.5 Samuel von Pufendorf, De Officio Hominis et Civis Juxta Legem Naturalem Libri Duo 201 2.3.6 John Locke, Second Treatise of Government 205 2.3.7 Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books 210 2.4 Modern 213 Introduction 213 2.4.1 Heinrich Rommen, The Natural Law: A Study in Legal and Social History and Philosophy 218 2.4.2 Jacques Maritain, Man and State 221 2.4.3 Yves Simon, Nature and Functions of Authority 228 2.4.4 A. D’Entreves, “A Rational Foundation of Ethics” 230 2.4.5 Gustav Radbruch, “Five Minutes of Legal Philosophy” 232 2.4.6 G.E.M. Anscombe, “Mr Truman’s Degree” 234 2.4.7 M.K. Gandhi, selected excerpts on the existence of a superior law 235 2.4.8 Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from the Birmingham City Jail (first version) 237 2.4.9 John Finnis, “Natural Law” 238 2.4.10 Servais Pinckaers, The Sources of Christian Ethics 245 3 Contemporary Natural Law 251 3.1 Ethical 253 Introduction 253 3.1.1 G.E.M. Anscombe, “Modern Moral Philosophy” 256 3.1.2 Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue 261 3.1.3 Charles Taylor, “Irreducibly Social Goods” 265 3.1.4 P.T. Geach, “Good and Evil” 270 3.1.5 Philippa Foot, “Human Goodness” 277 3.1.6 Michael Thompson, “Apprehending Human Form” 286 3.1.7 J. Murillo, “Health as a Norm and Principle of Intelligibility” 294 3.2Jurisprudence 297 Introduction 297 3.2.1 Debates and Clarifications 301 3.2.1.1 R.P. George, Making Men Moral 301 3.2.1.2 Norman Kretzmann, “Lex Iniusta Non est Lex: Laws on Trial in Aquinas’ Court of Conscience” 309 3.2.2 “New” and “Old” Natural Law Debate 318 3.2.2.1 R.P. George, “Recent Criticism of the Natural Law Theory” 318 3.2.2.2 Stephen L. Brock, “Natural Inclination and the Intelligibility of the Good in Thomistic Natural Law” 323 3.2.2.3 Daniel McInerny, “Hierarchy and Direction for Choice” 329 3.2.2.4 Steven D. Smith, “Natural Law and Contemporary Moral Thought: A Guide from the Perplexed” 336 3.3 Metaphysical, Social, and Critical 341 Introduction 341 3.3.1 David S. Oderberg, “Hylemorphic Dualism” 344 3.3.2 Anthony J. Lisska, “The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Natural Law in Thomas Aquinas: A New Look at Some Old Questions” 346 3.3.3 Russell Wilcox, “Natural Law and the Foundations of Social Theory” 356 3.3.4 Alasdair MacIntyre, “Theories of Natural Law in the Culture of Advanced Modernity” 363 4 Applied Natural Law 367 4.1 Procreation and the Family 369 Introduction 369 4.1.1 Servais Pinckaers, “Inclination to Sexuality” 372 4.1.2 G.E.M. Anscombe, Contraception and Chastity 377 4.1.3 Jacqueline A. Laing, “Law, Liberalism and the Common Good” 379 4.2 Medical Ethics and Biotechnology 389 Introduction 389 4.2.1 Patrick Lee and Robert P. George, “The Nature and Basis of Human Dignity” 392 4.2.2 Daniel Callahan, “When Self-Determination Runs Amok” 401 4.2.3 Leon R. Kass, “Triumph or Tragedy? The Moral Meaning of Genetic Technology” 408 4.2.4 Finn Bowring, “The Cyborg Solution” 415 4.3 Human Rights 425 Introduction 425 4.3.1 John Finnis, “Natural Law” 428 4.3.2 Mary Ann Glendon, “Foundations of Human Rights: The Unfinished Business” 431 4.3.3 James V. Schall, “Human Rights as an Ideological Project” 438
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Virtue and Vice Moral and Epistemic
Book SynopsisVirtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic presents a series of essays by leading ethicists and epistemologists who offer the latest thinking on the moral and intellectual virtues and vices, the structure of virtue theory, and the connections between virtue and emotion. Cuts across two fields of philosophical inquiry by featuring a dual focus on ethics and epistemology Features cutting-edge work on the moral and intellectual virtues and vices, the structure of virtue theory, and the connections between virtue and emotion Presents a radical new moral theory that makes exemplars the foundation of ethics; and new theories of epistemic vices such as epistemic malevolence and epistemic self-indulgence Represents one of the few collections to address both the moral virtues and the epistemic virtues Explores a new approach in epistemology - virtue epistemology - which emphasizes the importance of intellectual character traits Trade Review"Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers." (Choice, 1 May 2011)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii 1 Introduction: Virtue and Vice 1HEATHER BATTALY Part 1: The Structure of Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology 2 Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology 21ROGER CRISP 3 Exemplarist Virtue Theory 39LINDA ZAGZEBSKI 4 Right Act, Virtuous Motive 57THOMAS HURKA Part 2: Virtue and Context 5 Agency Ascriptions in Ethics and Epistemology: Or, Navigating Intersections, Narrow and Broad 73GUY AXTELL 6 Virtues, Social Roles, and Contextualism 95SARAH WRIGHT Part 3: Virtue and Emotion 7 Virtue, Emotion, and Attention 115MICHAEL S. BRADY 8 Feeling Without Thinking: Lessons from the Ancients on Emotion and Virtue-Acquisition 133AMY COPLAN Part 4: Virtues and Vices 9 A Challenge to Intellectual Virtue from Moral Virtue: The Case of Universal Love 153CHRISTINE SWANTON 10 Open-Mindedness 173WAYNE RIGGS 11 Epistemic Malevolence 189JASON BAEHR 12 Epistemic Self-Indulgence 215HEATHER BATTALY Index 237
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Renaissance Conscience
Book SynopsisThe Renaissance Conscience presents one of the first modern studies to explore the variety of ways in which people during the Renaissance conversed with - and let themselves be guided by - their conscience.Trade Review“Conscience is unquestionably a key word and concept during the period this book covers and it is illuminating to be reminded of the diversity of contexts in which it figured. At the same time, the editors’ expression of diffidence about one aspect of their project—they ‘‘hope’’ that the authors’ ‘‘reflections’’ will contribute to ‘‘our still modest knowledge’’ (10) — may be more broadly apt.” (Renaissance Quarterly, 1 July 2012) Table of ContentsNotes on contributors ix Introduction (Harald E. Braun and Edward Vallance) 1 1 Jean Gerson, moral certainty and the Renaissance of ancient Scepticism (Rudolf Schüssler) 11 2 Conscience and the law in Thomas More (Brian Cummings) 29 3 'Guided By God' beyond the Chilean frontier: the travelling early modern European conscience (Andrew Redden) 52 4 Shakespeare's open consciences (Christopher Tilmouth) 67 5 Women's letters, literature and conscience in sixteenth-century England (James Daybell) 82 6 The dangers of prudence: salus populi suprema lex, Robert Sanderson, and the 'Case of the Liturgy' (Edward Vallance) 100 7 The Bible, reason of state, and the royal conscience: Juan Márquez’s El governador christiano (Harald E. Braun) 118 8 Spin doctor of conscience? The royal confessor and the Christian prince (Nicole Reinhardt) 134 Index 157
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation
Book SynopsisThe Ethics of Cultural Appropriation undertakes a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic questions that arise from the practice of cultural appropriation.Trade Review"There are several characteristics that make this collection of essays an admirable endeavour: the breadth of questions and disciplines covered - music, arts, archaeology, genetics, religion, ethnobiology - in an interdisciplinary dialogue moderated by philosophers; the passionate engagement of the authors with the ethics of appropriation of subaltern cultures by dominant Western cultures; the incisiveness of the debates over each theme discussed (one author debating with another before giving his/her own point of view in the shape of an individual article); the soundness of theoretical arguments and the stunning and provocative examples debated." (Journal of the Royal Astronomical Institute, 2011)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Preface xii Artist Statement xvii lessLIE 1. Introduction 1 2. Archaeological Finds: Legacies of Appropriation, Modes of Response 11 George P. Nicholas and Alison Wylie 3. The Appropriation of Human Remains: A First Nations Legal and Ethical Perspective 55 James [Sakej] Youngblood Henderson 4. The Repatriation of Human Remains 72 Geoffrey Scarre 5. 'The Skin Off Our Backs': Appropriation of Religion 93 Conrad G. Brunk and James O. Young 6. Genetic Research and Culture: Where Does the Offense Lie? 115 Daryl Pullman and Laura Arbour 7. Appropriation of Traditional Knowledge: Ethics in the Context of Ethnobiology 140 Kelly Bannister and Maui Solomon (Part I) Conrad G. Brunk (Part II) 8. A Broken Record: Subjecting 'Music' to Cultural Rights 173 Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Rosemary J. Coombe with Fiona MacArailt 9. Objects of Appropriation 211 Andrea N. Walsh and Dominic McIver Lopes 10. Do Subaltern Artifacts Belong in Art Museums? 235 A.W. Eaton and Ivan Gaskell 11. 'Nothing Comes from Nowhere': Refl ections on Cultural Appropriation as the Representation of Other Cultures 268 James O. Young and Susan Haley Index 290
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Bristol University Press Philosophical Criminology
Book SynopsisThis accessible book is structured around six philosophical ideas concerning our relations with others: values, morality, aesthetics, order, rules and respect. Using examples from a range of countries, it provides a platform for engaging with important topical issues.Trade Review"A real tour de force that lays the groundwork for what Millie calls an empathetic criminology, this little gem of a book deserves to be read very widely." Ronnie Lippens, Keele University"This is an adventurous and exciting book looking at some old concepts but with fresh thinking. Philosophical Criminology asks big questions about how we get on with one another and what happens when we do not, taking a route which crosses disciplinary boundaries. Well-informed, hugely accessible, and memorable." Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge"Philosophical Criminology explores its topic from the most basic of premises: it is impossible to discuss criminology without philosophy." David Polizzi, Indiana State University, USA"This book is the new primer for philosophical criminology. It borrows both knowledge and wisdom from the analytic and continental traditions, and it explains why criminology has always been (and must always be) a decidedly philosophical endeavor, sui generis." Bruce Arrigo, UNC Charlotte“Opens the philosophical toolbox to criminology helping us to comprehend what questions need asking and how best to answer them.” Don Crewe, Leeds Beckett UniversityTable of ContentsA philosophical criminology; Value judgements; Morality; Aesthetics and crime; Order and disorder; Rules; Respect; Conclusions.
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Bristol University Press Philosophical Criminology
Book SynopsisThis accessible book is structured around six philosophical ideas concerning our relations with others: values, morality, aesthetics, order, rules and respect. Using examples from a range of countries, it provides a platform for engaging with important topical issues.Trade Review"A real tour de force that lays the groundwork for what Millie calls an empathetic criminology, this little gem of a book deserves to be read very widely." Ronnie Lippens, Keele University"This is an adventurous and exciting book looking at some old concepts but with fresh thinking. Philosophical Criminology asks big questions about how we get on with one another and what happens when we do not, taking a route which crosses disciplinary boundaries. Well-informed, hugely accessible, and memorable." Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge"Philosophical Criminology explores its topic from the most basic of premises: it is impossible to discuss criminology without philosophy." David Polizzi, Indiana State University, USA"This book is the new primer for philosophical criminology. It borrows both knowledge and wisdom from the analytic and continental traditions, and it explains why criminology has always been (and must always be) a decidedly philosophical endeavor, sui generis." Bruce Arrigo, UNC Charlotte“Opens the philosophical toolbox to criminology helping us to comprehend what questions need asking and how best to answer them.” Don Crewe, Leeds Beckett UniversityTable of ContentsA philosophical criminology; Value judgements; Morality; Aesthetics and crime; Order and disorder; Rules; Respect; Conclusions.
£23.74
Bristol University Press Morality and Public Policy
Book SynopsisSpanning religion, moral philosophy and scientific understanding of the human conditions, this unique book adds to the latest thinking on morality, proposing ways to enhance the capacity of public policy to respond to morality and associated shifts in social mores in different cultural settings.Trade Review"Clem Henricson eschews the simplistic polarisations that so often characterise the discussion of morality in the public sphere. Her engaging book combines a subtle and balanced analysis with a convincing case that policy makers can and should do morality better." Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA"An original analysis of the connections between moral sphere and public policy. Clem Henricson has produced a book of major significance to our understanding of how governments should do morality." Professor Kimmo Jokinen, University of Jyväskylä, FinlandTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why we need a better connection between morality and public policy; Moral perspectives to be addressed in an inclusive public policy; Synergies and tensions: Morality as an accommodation of human impulses in different cultural contexts; The challenges and benefits of a new role for public policy; Managing morality: a public policy analytical tool; Conclusion.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Morality and Public Policy
Book SynopsisSpanning religion, moral philosophy and scientific understanding of the human conditions, this unique book adds to the latest thinking on morality, proposing ways to enhance the capacity of public policy to respond to morality and associated shifts in social mores in different cultural settings.Trade Review"Clem Henricson eschews the simplistic polarisations that so often characterise the discussion of morality in the public sphere. Her engaging book combines a subtle and balanced analysis with a convincing case that policy makers can and should do morality better." Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA"An original analysis of the connections between moral sphere and public policy. Clem Henricson has produced a book of major significance to our understanding of how governments should do morality." Professor Kimmo Jokinen, University of Jyväskylä, FinlandTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why we need a better connection between morality and public policy; Moral perspectives to be addressed in an inclusive public policy; Synergies and tensions: Morality as an accommodation of human impulses in different cultural contexts; The challenges and benefits of a new role for public policy; Managing morality: a public policy analytical tool; Conclusion.
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New York University Press Good Eats
Book SynopsisA collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food in our livesIn an age of mass factory farming, processed and pre-packaged meals, and unprecedented food waste, how does one eat ethically?Featuring a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning writers, chefs, farmers, activists, educators, and journalists, Good Eats invites readers to think about what it means to eat according to individual and collective values. These essays are not lectures about what you should eat, nor an advertisement for the latest diet. Instead, the contributors tell stories of real peoplereal bellies, real bodiesincluding the writers themselves, who seek to understand the experiences, cultures, histories, and systems that have shaped their eating and their ethics.A wide array of themes, topics, and perspectives inform the selections within Good Eats, contributing to an enhanced understanding of how we eat as individuals and in groups. From factory farming Trade ReviewA wonderful starting place to think about how to eat ethically. * Kirkus Reviews (starred) *While mindful eaters will find many familiar concepts, the engaging first-person narratives gently remind us not to turn a blind eye to these edible dilemmas while also cutting ourselves some slack. * Booklist *Good Eats explores people’s relationships to food through personal stories of love, connection, and emotional literacy. It argues that, in its purest form, food is about security, with love learned through recipes, people healing from grief through sweet food memories, and reconnecting with the land. * Foreword Reviews *It’s easy to think about ethical eating as a diminishment, to think that we need to reduce our lives in order to save the planet. As anybody who has ever attempted change on ethical grounds in their lives knows, it can be hard; it can be awkward; it can be frustrating. It can also be singularly gratifying and joyous. While we don’t have a definitive solution to “How do we eat ethically?”, the voices brought together in Good Eats begin the work of piecing together an answer. * Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals *In Good Eats, authors from all walks of life relate their daily struggles—moral as well as economic—to eat diets that promote human and environmental health and meet deeply held principles of food equity and social justice. Their accounts of these struggles are sometimes funny, always moving, and entirely recognizable by anyone trying to eat ethically. * Marion Nestle, author of Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics *
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New York University Press Good Eats
Book SynopsisA collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food in our livesIn an age of mass factory farming, processed and pre-packaged meals, and unprecedented food waste, how does one eat ethically?Featuring a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning writers, chefs, farmers, activists, educators, and journalists, Good Eats invites readers to think about what it means to eat according to individual and collective values. These essays are not lectures about what you should eat, nor an advertisement for the latest diet. Instead, the contributors tell stories of real peoplereal bellies, real bodiesincluding the writers themselves, who seek to understand the experiences, cultures, histories, and systems that have shaped their eating and their ethics.A wide array of themes, topics, and perspectives inform the selections within Good Eats, contributing to an enhanced understanding of how we eat as individuals and in groups. From factory farming Trade ReviewA wonderful starting place to think about how to eat ethically. * Kirkus Reviews (starred) *While mindful eaters will find many familiar concepts, the engaging first-person narratives gently remind us not to turn a blind eye to these edible dilemmas while also cutting ourselves some slack. * Booklist *Good Eats explores people’s relationships to food through personal stories of love, connection, and emotional literacy. It argues that, in its purest form, food is about security, with love learned through recipes, people healing from grief through sweet food memories, and reconnecting with the land. * Foreword Reviews *It’s easy to think about ethical eating as a diminishment, to think that we need to reduce our lives in order to save the planet. As anybody who has ever attempted change on ethical grounds in their lives knows, it can be hard; it can be awkward; it can be frustrating. It can also be singularly gratifying and joyous. While we don’t have a definitive solution to “How do we eat ethically?”, the voices brought together in Good Eats begin the work of piecing together an answer. * Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals *In Good Eats, authors from all walks of life relate their daily struggles—moral as well as economic—to eat diets that promote human and environmental health and meet deeply held principles of food equity and social justice. Their accounts of these struggles are sometimes funny, always moving, and entirely recognizable by anyone trying to eat ethically. * Marion Nestle, author of Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics *
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Baylor University Press Jewish Justice
Book SynopsisExplores the continuing role of Judaism for crafting ethics, politics, and theology. Drawing on sources as diverse as the Bible, the Talmud, and ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy, David Novak asserts Judaism's integral place in communal discourse of the public square.Trade ReviewNovak speaks as a Jewish Theologian to inform us that the Jewish canonical texts for determining the Transcendental all have the core message to act humanely and rationally as a 'pro-active' member of one's community. In so doing, the communities function as homes for the Transcendental. -- Sheldon Richmond -- Literature and TheologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Can Capital Punishment Ever Be Justified in the Jewish Tradition? 2. The Elimination of Mutilation and Torture in Rabbinic Thought and Practice 3. Natural Law, Human Dignity, and the Protection of Human Property 4. Land and People: One Jewish Perspective 5. Jewish Marriage and Civil Law: A Two-Way Street? 6. Jewish Marriage: Nature, Covenant, and Contract 7. Divine Justice/Divine Command 8. The Universality of Jewish Ethics: A Rejoinder to Secularist Critics 9. The Judaic Foundation of Rights 10. Social Contract in Modern Jewish Thought: A Theological Critique 11. Toward a Jewish Public Philosophy in America 12. Defending Niebuhr from Hauerwas 13. Is Natural Law a Border Concept Between Judaism and Christianity?
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Baylor University Press Entangled Being
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University of Toronto Press The Givenness of Desire
Book SynopsisIn The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan’s concrete subjectivity. Rosenberg engages and integrates two major scholarly developments: the tension between Neo-Thomists and scholars of Henri de Lubac over our natural desire to see God and the theological appropriation of the mimetic theory of René Girard, with an emphasis on the saints as models of desire. With Lonergan as an integrating thread, the author engages a variety of thinkers, including Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jean-Luc Marion, René Girard, James Alison, Lawrence Feingold, and John Milbank, among others. The theme of concrete subjectivity helps to resist the tendency of equating too easily the natural desire for being with the natural desire for God without at the same time acknowledging the widespread distortion of desire found in the consumer culture that infects contemporary life. The Givenness of Desire investigates our paradoxical Trade Review‘This volume is a valuable resource for any scholar interested in the desire for self-transcendence and the natural desire for God.’ -- J.M. Meinert * Choice Magazine *"Rosenberg has achieved something rare: a genuine and sympathetic conversation among neo-Scholastics, Lonergan, Girard, and la nouvelle théologie. The result is a valuable and immensely stimulating book, funded by terrific insight, for a theologically sophisticated readership." -- Jeremy D. Wilkins * Horizons: The Journal of the College of Theological Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements INTRODUCTION PART ONE: DE LUBAC, RESSOURCEMENT, AND NEO-THOMISM CHAPTER 1: De Lubac's Lament: Loss of the Supernatural CHAPTER 2: Ressourcement and Neo-Thomism: A Narrative under Scrutiny, A Dialogue Renewed PART TWO: A LONERGAN RETRIEVAL: PURE NATURE TO CONCRETE SUBJECT CHAPTER 3: The Erotic Roots of Intellectual Desire CHAPTER 4: Concretely-Operating Nature: Lonergan on the Natural Desire to See God CHAPTER 5: Being-in-Love and the Desire for the Supernatural: Erotic-Agapic Subjectivity PART III: MIMETIC DESIRE, MODELS OF HOLINESS, AND THE LOVE OF DEVIATED TRANSCENDENCE CHAPTER 6: Incarnate Meaning and Mimetic Desire: Saints and the Desire for God CHAPTER 7: The Metaphysics of Holiness and the Longing for God in History: Therese of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum CHAPTER 8: Distorted Desire and the Love of Deviated Transcendence CONCLUSION
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University of Toronto Press A Second Collection
Book SynopsisFor the edition of A Second Collection prepared for the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, editors Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky have added archival materials directly related to almost every one of the papers, bringing the reader closer to the original compositions. The papers date from 1966 to 1973, and span the most creative period in Lonergan’s development. Two major themes run through these papers: the primacy of the fourth, existential level of human consciousness, and the significance of historical mindedness with all its implications for culture, hermeneutics, and phenomenological thinking. The theme of conversion makes a grand entrance in ‘Theology in Its New Context,’ a paper that charted the course for the unfolding of Method in Theology. This new edition makes extensive use of original manuscripts, variants in drafts of the essays, and hand-written corrections.Table of ContentsGeneral Editors' Preface 1 The Transition from a Classicist Worldview to Historical Mindedness 2 The Dehellenization of Dogma 3 Theories of Inquiry: Responses to a Symposium 4 The Future of Thomism 5 Theology in Its New Context 6 The Subject 7 Belief: Today's Issue 8 The Absence of God in Modern Culture 9 Natural Knowledge of God 10 Theology and Man's Future 11 The Future of Christianity 12 The Response of the Jesuit as Priest and Apostle in the Modern World 13 The Example of Gibson Winter 14 Philosophy and Theology 15 An Interview with Fr Bernard Lonergan S.J. 16 Revolution in Catholic Theology 17 The Origins of Christian Realism (1972) 18 Insight Revisited Lexicon of Latin Terms and Phrases Index
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University of Toronto Press A Third Collection
Book SynopsisA Third Collection, prepared for the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan by editors Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky, is a helpful companion to volumes four and thirteen in the series. The volume contains fifteen papers, written between 1974 and 1982, and includes some of his most important shorter writings such as Prolegomena to the Study of the Emerging Religious Consciousness of Our Time and Natural Right and Historical Mindedness. The relevant archival entries are specified, so that readers can consult them. The papers in this volume rehearse in a new key the themes of a lifetime. Without in any way going back on the major emphases of Lonergan''s early workcognitional theory and then the exploration of a fourth, existential level of consciousness they are focused more on love and on the movement from above downwards in consciousness. Community is emphasized as the context and the fruit of the emergence of authentic subjects.Table of ContentsPart One: Tradition and Innovation 1 Dialectic of Authority 2 Method: Trend and Variations 3 Mission and the Spirit 4 Aquinas Today: Tradition and Innovation 5 Prolegomena to the Study of the Emerging Religious Consciousness of Our Time 6 Christology Today: Methodological Reflections 7 Healing and Creating in History Part Two: Lectures on Religious Studies and Theology 8 First Lecture: Religious Experience 9 Second Lecture: Religious Knowledge 10 Third Lecture: The Ongoing Genesis of Methods Part Three: Theory and Praxis 11 Natural Right and Historical Mindedness 12 Theology and Praxis 13 A Post-Hegelian Philosophy of Religion 14 Pope John's Intention 15 Unity and Plurality: The Coherence of Christian Truth
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University of Toronto Press Ambiguous Antidotes
Book SynopsisChastity and lust, charity and greed, humility and pride, are but some of the virtues and vices that have been in tension since Prudentius’ Psychomachia, written in the fifth century. While there has been widespread agreement within a given culture about what exactly constitutes a virtue or a vice, are these categories so consistent after all? In Ambiguous Antidotes, Hilaire Kallendorf explores the receptions of Virtues in the realm of moral philosophy and the artistic production it influenced during the Spanish Golden Age. Using the Derridian notion of pharmakon, a powerful substance that can serve as poison and cure, Kallendorf’s original and pioneering insight into five key Virtues (justice, fortitude, chastity, charity, and prudence) reveals an intriguing but messy relationship. Rather than being seen as unambiguously good antidotes, the Virtues are instead contested spaces where competing sets of values jostled for primacy aTrade Review"This ambitious volume is written with great verve and stands to open many doors for future comedia study." -- Shifra Armon, University of Florida * Bulletin des Commandants, 2019 *"The book confirms the great potential of Golden Age drama as a source of case studies. The commercial stage was a locus where popular demand intersected with the sort of normative discourse generated by the cultural, religious, and political elites: as Kallendorf points out, the theater can be viewed as an ‘artificially constructed laboratory for the study of moral behaviour.’" -- José María Pérez Fernández, Universidad de Granada * Renaissance Quarterly, Summer 2020 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Prologue: Virtuous Genealogies Introduction 1. Blind Justice 2. Fleeting Fortitude 3. Charity as Greed 4. Loose Chastity 5. Prudence: Panacea or Placebo? 6. Class Trumps Sex: (En)Gendering Virtue Conclusion Epilogue: Virtual Virtue
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University of Toronto Press I AM
Book SynopsisThe Bible is philosophy. God's I AM WHO I AM asserts its principle, an ontological principle having to do with the nature of persons. Western religion, confusing the principle for a person, rests on a mistake. Greek-based philosophy, missing the principle, is deficient.Table of Contents1. Philosophy: Pagan and Jewish 2. The Inaugural Lecture 3. Natural Philosophy: System and Humankind 4. Philosophical Anthropology: First Person, Singular 5. Moral Philosophy: The Commandments 6. Axiology and Ecology 7. Political Philosophy: The City and the Tower 8. Epistemology and Metaphysics: Naming and Being 9. Philosophy of Mind: Straddling Jordan 10. Suffering and Logic Conclusion: Does Western Religion Rest on a Mistake?
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University of Toronto Press The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding
Book SynopsisRobyn Lee's The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding explores breastfeeding as an art of living that must be developed through skillful application of effort and distinguished from a merely natural or physiological process.Table of Contents1. Breastfeeding, Subjectivity, and Art as a Way of Life 2. Biopower, Medicalization, and Maternalism 3. Ethics, Pleasure, Subjectivity 4. Feeding the Hungry Other 5. Breastfeeding and Sexual Difference 6. A Politics of Breastfeeding
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University of Toronto Press The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty
Book SynopsisAccording to the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, a world that has lost sight of beauty is a world riddled with skepticism, moral and aesthetic relativism, conflicting religious worldviews, and escalating ecological crises. In The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty, John D. Dadosky uses Kierkegaard and Nietzsche’s negative aesthetics to outline the context of that loss, and presents an argument for reclaiming beauty as a metaphysical property of being. Inspired by Bernard Lonergan’s philosophy of consciousness, Dadosky presents a philosophy of beauty that is grounded in contemporary Thomistic thought. Responding to Balthasar, he argues for a concept of beauty that can be experienced, understood, judged, created, contemplated, and even loved. Deeply engaged with the work of Aquinas, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kant, among others, The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty will be essential reading for those interested in contemporaryTrade Review"...Dadosky's effort to work out a philosophy of beauty on the basis of Lonergan's thought, to enter into dialogue with significant figures, and to re-establish the transcendental status of beauty in a contemporary context amounts to an original and momentous achievement." -- Paul St. Amour American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly "Within the boundaries of the wider Lonergan project, Dadosky's argument is nuanced, differentiated, and, so far as I can discern, beyond reproach...students of theological aesthetics in particular will profit from the expositions and arguments he offers therein. The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty is harmonious, well-integrated, and very clear. That is, in the specific terms Dadosky designates, it is a beautiful piece of work." -- Reid B. Locklin Toronto Journal of Theology "John Dadosky has written a very good book on an overlooked, but important, topic... Using the tools of Lonergan's generalized empirical method, Dadosky has made the case for the objectivity of aesthetic judgments and by extension for the recovery of beauty as a transcendental... The result is a beautifully written book that's hints at much more to come from this author." -- Michael Shute Studies in ReligionTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 The Eclipse of Beauty and Its Recovery *1.1 Introduction *1.2 The Achievement of Thomistic Metaphysics and its Demise *1.2.1 A Post-Kantian Transposition of Thomistic Metaphysics *1.3 Considerations for a Contemporary Philosophy of Beauty *1.4 Lonergan's Philosophy and Hermeneutics: A Brief Overview *1.5 Conclusion 2 Every Being is Beautiful *2.1 Beauty as a Transcendental Property of Being *2.1.1 The Development of Transcendental Beauty *2.1.2 Aquinas and Transcendental Beauty? *2.1.3 The Fourth Period *2.2 Beauty: A Thomistic Interpretation *2.2.1 The Conditions of Beauty *2.2.2 Further Questions *2.2.3 Perception of Beauty *2.2.4 Beauty and Art *2.3. Beauty: A Lonergan Approach? 3 Violence and the Loss of Beauty *3.1 Displacement and Distortion of Beauty *3.2 Nietzsche's Aesthetics *3.3 Girard's critique of Nietzsche *3.3.1 Dionysus and the Crucified *3.3.2 Culpability in the Collective Murder *3.3.3 Dionysus as a Mimicked Distortion of Christ *3.4 A Re-orientation of Nietzchean Aesthetics? *3.5 Conclusion 4 Recovering Beauty in the Subject *4.1 Introduction *4.2 Kierkegaard's Spheres of Existence *4.3 Balthasar's Critique: A Closer Examination *4.4 The Existential Spheres and Intentional Consciousness *4.5 Conclusion 5 The End of Aesthetic Experience? *5.1 Introduction *5.2 The Loss of Aesthetic Experience *5.2.1 Major Post-Kantian Approaches to Aesthetic Experience *5.2.2 Shusterman: "The End of Aesthetic Experience" *5.3 Lonergan and Aesthetic Experience *5.3.1 The Unrestricted Desire for Beauty *5.3.2 Freedom from Instrumentality *5.3.3 Elemental Meaning *5.3.4 Ulterior Significance and 'Surplus of Meaning' *5.3.5 Transformative and Distortive aspects of Aesthetic Experience *5.3.6 Lonergan and Shusterman *5.4 The Sensible and Intellectual Perception and Apprehension of Beauty *5.5 Aesthetic Experience and the Sublime *5.1 Brief History of the Sublime *5.2 The Sublime as Experienced *5.6 Conclusion 6 The Intelligibility of Beauty *6.1 Introduction *6.2 Beauty and Architecture: The example of Christopher Alexander *6.2.1Alexander's 15 principles *6.2.2 Alexander's principles and Aquinas *6.3 The Intelligibility of Beauty in Lonergan's Theory of Consciousness *6.4 Conclusion 7 Judgments of Beauty *7.1 Introduction *7.2 Aesthetic Judgments in Kant *7.2.1 Four Moments of Aesthetic Judgments *7.3 Lonergan and Judgment *7.3.1 'Value' in Method in Theology *7.4 Judging Beauty for Lonergan *7.4.1 A Lonergan Appropriation of Kant's Four Moments *7.4.2 Beauty and the Preferential Scales of Values *7.4.3 Three Moments of Beauty *7.4.4 Is Beauty distinct from Goodness? *7.5 Concluding Comments 8 Creating, Contemplating and Loving Beauty *8.1 Introduction *8.2 The Aesthetic/Dramatic Operator *8.3 Philosophy of Art *8.3.1Aesthetic and Artistic patterns of experience *8.3.2 Art as Meaning *8.3.3Developing Lonergan on Art *8.3.4 Summing up: Lonergan on Art *8.4 Life and Beauty *8.4.1Ethical living *8.5 Contemplating Beauty *8.6 Loving Beauty *8.7 Beauty and God *7.1 From Aesthetic Experience to the Beauty of God *8.8 Conclusion 9 Philosophy for a Theology of Beauty *9.1 Introduction *9.2 A Summary and Overview *9.3 Towards a Theology of Beauty *9.4 Conclusion
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University of Toronto Press Organs for Sale
Book SynopsisOrgans for Sale is a study of the bioethical question of how to increase human organ supply. But it is also an inquiry into public moral deliberation and the relationship between economic worth and the value systems of a society. Looking closely at human organ procurement debates, the author offers a critique of neoliberalism in bioethics and asks what kind of society we truly want. While society has shown concern over debates surrounding organ procurement, a better understanding of the rhetoric of advocates and philosophical underpinnings of the debate might indeed improve our public moral deliberation in general and organ policy more specifically. Examining public arguments, this book uses a range of source material, from medical journals to congressional hearings to newspaper op-eds, to provide the most up-to-date and thorough analysis of the topic. Organs for Sale posits that deciding together on the limits of markets, and on what is and ought to be for saTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Section One: Morals, Markets, and Medicine 1. Organs for Sale? Normative Entanglements in the Public Sphere 2. Public Morality: Altruism, Rhetoric, and Bioethics Section Two: The Rhetorical Positions, Arguments, and Justifications in Human Organ Procurement 3. The Case for an Altruistic Supply System 4. The Case for a Market-Based Supply System Section Three: Morality, Neoliberalism, and the Prospects of Reasoning Together in a Democracy 5. The Neoliberal Graft: Medicine, Morality, and Markets in Liberal-Democratic Regimes 6. Good Reasons: Metanormativity and Categoricity 7. Weighing Reasons: Telic Orientation, Rhetorical Force, and Normative Force Section Four: Weighing Reasons in the Organ Debate 8. The Scope of the Market: Exploitation, Coercion, Paternalism, and Legal Consistency 9. What Money Cannot Buy and What Money Ought Not Buy: Dignity, Motives, and Markets Conclusion: What Kind of Policy for What Kind of Society? Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil
Book SynopsisHow do we perceive evil? How do we represent evil? In Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil, Taran Kang examines the entanglements of aesthetics and morality. Investigating conceptions and images of evil, Kang identifies a fateful moment of transformation in the eighteenth century that continues to reverberate to the present day. Transgression, once allocated the central place in the constitution of evil, undergoes a startling revaluation in the Enlightenment and its aftermath, one that needs to be understood in relation to emergent ideas in the arts. Taran Kang engages with the writings of Edmund Burke, the Marquis de Sade, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Hannah Arendt, among others, as he questions recent calls to de-aestheticize evil and insists on a historically informed appreciation of evil’s aesthetic dimensions. Chapters consider the figure of the evil genius, the paradoxical appeal of the grotesque and the disgusting, and the moral status of spectators who bTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Genius and the Spirit of Transgression I. Rule-breakers II. The Poet and the Devil 2. Symbols of the Morally Bad I. Grotesque Subversions II. The Dialectic of Disgust 3. Evil and the Sublime I. Between Elevation and Terror II. Representing Radical Evil 4. Wicked Spectators I. The Mirth of Tragedy II. Crime and the Connoisseur Epilogue Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Conversations on Ethical Leadership
Book SynopsisHighlighting ethical leadership strategies, Conversations on Ethical Leadership explores what makes for strong, well-informed, morally sound decision-making at all levels of an organization. In addressing a range of challenges faced by universities and applying those lessons to the broader community of the public and private sectors, Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and her contributors tackle a host of issues related to advancing ethics, diversity, inclusiveness, and the art of moral leadership. Each chapter, written by an author with roots in the academy, includes a subsequent commentary by a community leader who highlights the broader takeaways that emerge for society from the university experience. In this way, the book becomes a conversation between the academic and non-academic worlds about issues that affect any prominent organization. It offers a unique range of novel and timely topics, from responsibility-centred budgeting to post-pandemic planning, responsiveness to cTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgements Introductory Remarks: Opening the Conversation Ingrid Leman Stefanovic Part One: The Sustainable University 1. Universities and the Ethics of Environment Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Simone Hausknecht Commentary: Todd Latham 2. University Responses to and Obligations for Business Air Travel Emissions John Robinson, Dione Dias, Ayako Ariga, Rashad Brugmann, Nicolas Côté, Meghan Henderson, Andrea Muehlebach, Rutu Patel, Jennifer Puskar, and Peter Vuong Commentary: Kevin Nilsen Part Two: Pursuing Excellence and Integrity 3. Resourcing the Pursuit of Academic Excellence Gordon M. Myers Commentary: Esther Bergman 4. Aspiring to the Transformational: Building upon a Holistic Approach to Academic Integrity in Higher Education Emma J. Thacker Commentary: Sue McGeachie 5. Openness, Responsiveness, and Discomfort: A Relational Approach to Student-Centred Leadership Sarah J. King Commentary: Lois Lindsay Part Three: Community Engagement and Diversity 6. Leadership, Vision, and the Role of Chancellor in University Governance Anne Giardini Commentary: B. Alexander Leman 7. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Closing Gaps and Opening Minds Tricia Glazebrook Commentary: Margie Zeidler 8. Critical Issues in Architecture / Engaged, Ethical Architectural Education Thomas Barrie Commentary: Sabrina Leman 9. Indigenous Leadership and Governance, and Reconciliation D. McGregor, L. McGregor, C. Peltier, and S. Manitowabi Commentary: Anne Koven and Stephanie Seymour Part Four: The Ethics of Expression 10. Guiding Creativity and Controversy: A Faith-Based University Experience J. Harry Fernhout Commentary: Nada Conic 11. University Governance and Campus Speech L.W. Sumner Commentary: Christopher Ollson Part Five: The Art of Leadership 12. Spaces of Virtue in Universities Bruce B. Janz Commentary: Indira Samaresekera 13. The Art of Having the Right Thing Happen Robert Mugerauer Commentary: David Miller Closing Remarks 14. Building a University’s Sense of Place Ingrid Leman Stefanovic List of Chapter Contributors List of Commentary Contributors Index
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University of Toronto Press Duty and Hypocrisy in Hegels Phenomenology of
Book SynopsisDuty and Hypocrisy in Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Mind’ combines a general discussion of Hegelian themes with the first loose commentary, explication, and testing of Hegel’s discussion of morality in the Phenomenology of Mind. In this work Hegel analyses a life ordered around the idea of duty and concludes that it must inevitably end in hypocrisy. The reasons for Hegel’s conclusions are complex, and his discussion is conducted in a way which is relatively unfamiliar to English-speaking readers. His analysis of the moral consciousness is neither an inquiry into the various sorts of ethical concepts and the logical relations between them nor merely a description of how different people behave. Nor, again is it hortatory or prescriptive. Unlike Aristotle he does not instruct ‘in order to become good.’ Rather, he adopted a kind of middle ground between analysis and description and seeks to show how the faulty logic of duty brings terrible c
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University of Toronto Press Brownings Voices in the Ring and the Book
Book SynopsisToo often the vastness of The Ring and the Book has discouraged modern readers, yet it has become increasingly clear that the meaning of this monumental poem rests on its whole design. In this work the author deals with the poem in its entirety to show the culmination of both Browning’s artistic skill and his moral and aesthetic philosophy. Approaching the whole poem from the point of view of the poet’s role (rather than the “what-happens” approach) this study examines the complex method by which Browning demonstrates how a poet goes about making his audience share his gift of judging human guilt and innocence.The author discusses some of the main questions that have concerned critics for so long – the problem of Browning’s attitude toward “fact,” the real meaning of his “doctrine of commitment,” and the connection between his optimistic philosophy and his fascination with the role of evil in human a
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University of Toronto Press The Improvement of Mankind
Book SynopsisAlthough John Stuart Mill is generally and properly known as a philosopher and political economist, his writings actually cover a wide variety of subjects. In this book Professor Robson brings together the most important strands of Mill’s thought in an attempt to show that it contains a basic unity of approach, at the heart of which is his ethical system. Mill’s ethical position depends on his understanding of the relation between practice and theory, and reflects his own experience, especially his “metal crisis,” his appreciation of poetry, and his friendship with Harriet Taylor (who later became his wife). The study brings out the importance of the three phases in Mill’s life: his early period of adherence to the ideas of James Mill and Bentham; his period of assimilation of the influences of Coleridge, Carlyle, Comte, and de Toequeville; and finally his period of mature fame, when he published his System of Logic, Principles of Political Governm
£27.90
University of Toronto Press The Importance of Insight
Book SynopsisWritten in honour of Michael Vertin the distinguished philosopher and Lonergan scholar at the University of Toronto, The Importance of Insight brings together a number of thoughtful essays by leading Lonergan scholars. These essays investigate the importance of Lonergan's articulation of insight, and how it can be applied within the fields of cognitional theory, theology, ethics, and politics. The contributors address several issues emerging from the post-Enlightenment crisis of meaning and value, as well as more specific contemporary concerns, such as the nature of Christian revelation, the articulation of Church doctrine, and the ethical training health care professionals should receive.By indicating what there is to be gained by understanding and applying insight in a number of different contexts, this collection highlights the relevance of Lonergan's thought in the contemporary intellectual and cultural milieu, and, at the same time, makes a significant contribut
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University of Toronto Press Philosophy and Freedom
Book SynopsisJames Doull's remarkable legacy as a teacher, scholar, and thinker has left behind a profound and challenging examination of the philosophical and historical roots of contemporary thought and politics. His life's work was devoted to a reflection on freedom in its philosophical and historical context and, more specifically, to looking beneath the commonly accepted forms of North American and Continental thought and discovering a deeper theoretical and practical development. David Peddle and Neil Robertson have collected Doull's essays on the history of western thought and freedom, from the Ancient period to the Post-Modern era, and have provided an introduction that places them in the context of Doull's overall project.Commentaries on his intricate works by twelve former colleagues and students explore various aspects of Doull's history and place it within the context of contemporary scholarship, allowing the reader to judge the depth and rigour of Doull's writing. Together,
£36.90
Springer New York Ethics and the Archaeology of Violence 2 Ethical
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: the only way is ethics.- Chapter 2: Ethics in action: a viewpoint from Israel/Palestine.- Chapter 3: Archaeological ethics and violence in post-genocide Rwanda.- Chapter 4: All our findings are under their boots! The monologue of violence in Iranian archaeology.- Chapter 5: Archaeology of historic conflicts, colonial oppression and political violence in Uruguay.- Chapter 6: Everything is kept in memory. Reflections on the memory sites of the dictatorship in Buenos Aires (Argentina).- Chapter 7: Archaeology, anthropology and civil conflict. The case of Spain.- Chapter 8: A gate to a darker world: excavating at the Tempelhof airport (Berlin).- Chapter 9: Archaeology, National Socialism and rehabilitation: the case of Herbert Jankuhn (1905-1990).- Chapter 10: The ethics of public engagement in the archaeology of modern conflict.- Chapter 11: Military advocacy of peaceful approaches for cultural property protection.- Chapter 12: Cognitive dissonance and the military-archaeology complex.- Chapter 13: Working as a forensic archaeologist and/or anthropologist in post-conflict contexts: a consideration of professional responsibilities to the missing, the dead and their relatives.- Chapter 14: Virtues impracticable and extremely difficult: The human rights of subsistence diggers.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: the only way is ethics.- Chapter 2: Ethics in action: a viewpoint from Israel/Palestine.- Chapter 3: Archaeological ethics and violence in post-genocide Rwanda.- Chapter 4: All our findings are under their boots! The monologue of violence in Iranian archaeology.- Chapter 5: Archaeology of historic conflicts, colonial oppression and political violence in Uruguay.- Chapter 6: “Everything is kept in memory.” Reflections on the memory sites of the dictatorship in Buenos Aires (Argentina).- Chapter 7: Archaeology, anthropology and civil conflict. The case of Spain.- Chapter 8: A gate to a darker world: excavating at the Tempelhof airport (Berlin).- Chapter 9: Archaeology, National Socialism and rehabilitation: the case of Herbert Jankuhn (1905-1990).- Chapter 10: The ethics of public engagement in the archaeology of modern conflict.- Chapter 11: Military advocacy of peaceful approaches for cultural property protection.- Chapter 12: Cognitive dissonance and the military-archaeology complex.- Chapter 13: Working as a forensic archaeologist and/or anthropologist in post-conflict contexts: a consideration of professional responsibilities to the missing, the dead and their relatives.- Chapter 14: Virtues impracticable and extremely difficult: The human rights of subsistence diggers.
£42.74
Cornell University Press The Ethics of Criticism
Book SynopsisTobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and the attitudes fostered by the approaches. Building on analyses of the moral legacies of Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud, Siebers identifies the various fronts on which the concerns of critical theory impinge on those of ethics.Trade ReviewThe Ethics of Criticism should contribute to the new theoretical conversation through its conclusions about specific thinkers and by moving others to think harder and say more about the relation among ethics, criticism, and literature. -- James Phelan * Modern Philology *
£15.99
Cornell University Press Kidney to Share
Book SynopsisIn Kidney to Share, Martha Gershun tells the story of her decision to donate a kidney to a stranger. She takes readers through the complex process by which such donors are vetted to ensure that they are physically and psychologically fit to take the risk of a major operation. John D. Lantos, a physician and bioethicist, places Gershun''s story in the larger context of the history of kidney transplantation and the ethical controversies that surround living donors. Together, they help readers understand the discoveries that made transplantation relatively safe and effective as well as the legal, ethical, and economic policies that make it feasible. Gershun and Lantos explore the steps involved in recovering and allocating organs. They analyze the differences that arise depending on whether the organ comes from a living donor or one who has died. They observe the expertiseand the shortcomingsof doctors, nurses, and other professionals and describe theTrade ReviewKidney to Share provides an account of organ donation that is both personal and analytical. The combination of perspectives leads to a profound and compelling exploration of a largely opaque practice. [The authors] pull back the curtain to offer readers a more transparent view of the fascinating world of organ donation. * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Why Not Me? 2. The Arcane Process of Screening Living Donors 3. Meeting "My" Recipient 4. Do I Own My Organs? 5. Evaluation at Mayo 6. Are "Stranger Donors" Irrational? 7. What Are the Risks? 8. Unnecessary Bureaucratic Barriers or Appropriate Patient Protection? 9. The Endgame 10. Paired Exchanges, Chain Donations, and Organ Markets 11. The Odyssey Continues 12. Complexities of Increasing Organ Supply 13. Going Public, Moving Forward 14. The Countdown Begins 15. Ethics, Organ Markets, and Dry Ice 16. Staying Healthy 17. First Attempt 18. Second Attempt 19. Follow-Up 20. Lessons Learned Epilogue
£19.94
Cornell University Press Roaming Free Like a Deer
Book SynopsisBy exploring lived ecological experiences across seven Buddhist worlds from ancient India to the contemporary West, Roaming Free Like a Deer provides a comprehensive, critical, and innovative examination of the theories, practices, and real-world results of Buddhist environmental ethics. Daniel Capper clarifies crucial contours of Buddhist vegetarianism or meat eating, nature mysticism, and cultural speculations about spirituality in nonhuman animals. Buddhist environmental ethics often are touted as useful weapons in the fight against climate change. However, two formidable but often overlooked problems with this perspective exist. First, much of the literature on Buddhist environmental ethics uncritically embraces Buddhist ideals without examining the real-world impacts of those ideals, thereby sometimes ignoring difficulties in terms of practical applications. Moreover, for some understandable but still troublesome reasons, Buddhists from differTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Some Methods in Buddhist Environmental Ethics 2. The Buddha's Nature 3. The Clever Bee of Sri Lanka 4. Beautiful Thai Buffaloes 5. Eating the Enlightened Plants of China 6. Japanese Water Buddhas 7. Releasing Animals in Tibet 8. Natural Persons in the West Conclusion
£97.20
Stanford University Press Giving Way: Thoughts on Unappreciated
Book SynopsisIn a world that promotes assertion, agency, and empowerment, this book challenges us to revalue a range of actions and attitudes that have come to be disregarded or dismissed as merely passive. Mercy, resignation, politeness, restraint, gratitude, abstinence, losing well, apologizing, taking care: today, such behaviors are associated with negativity or lack. But the capacity to give way is better understood as positive action, at once intricate and demanding. Moving from intra-human common courtesies, to human-animal relations, to the global civility of human-inhuman ecological awareness, the book's argument unfolds on progressively larger scales. In reminding us of the existential threat our drives pose to our own survival, Steven Connor does not merely champion a family of behaviors; he shows that we are more adept practitioners of them than we realize. At a time when it is on the wane, Giving Way offers a powerful defense of civility, the versatile human capacity to deflect aggression into sociability and to exercise power over power itself.Trade Review"Can one be effusively enthusiastic or unreservedly supportive of a book that asks its audience to exercise restraint? Connor helped me see why civility might be one of the most radical things we can aspire to in the contemporary world. Giving Way gets to the root of what it means to be an ethical human being."—David Kishik, Emerson College"If anyone can persuade us of the merits of abstaining and refraining, holding back and backing down, it is Steven Connor, one of the most consistently interesting critics writing today. Displaying the author's characteristic blend of learnedness and verve, Giving Way is a bold, wide-ranging, and highly original work—a dazzling exercise in what he dubs cultural phenomenology."—Rita Felski, University of Virginia"Steven Connor once again demonstrates his ability to produce an erudite study that reveals the historical, literary, cultural, and philosophical dimensions of a seemingly mundane topic, examining human interaction and 'civility' from different, and often delightfully surprising, points of view."—Benet Davetian, University of Prince Edward Island"Connor's book, in my opinion, would be spellbinding for scholars working in performance studies as a field that endlessly frames, reframes and unframes its scope and dispositions by finding and giving way....Giving Way serves as a beacon of hope in the harsh competitiveness of a neoliberal world in which people cannot not do."—Mohammad Mehdi Kimagari, Critical Inquiry"This book is, at its core, about acting with reserve and within limits, and it has the rare distinction of being appropriate for readers of all stripes....An invaluable resource, particularly for those interested in moral philosophy and psychology. Essential."—S. E. Forschler, CHOICETable of Contents1. Modulating 2. Minding Your Tongue 3. Backing Down 4. Refraining 5. Apologizing 6. Losing Well 7. Taking Care Conclusion: Ministering
£86.40
Stanford University Press Giving Way: Thoughts on Unappreciated
Book SynopsisIn a world that promotes assertion, agency, and empowerment, this book challenges us to revalue a range of actions and attitudes that have come to be disregarded or dismissed as merely passive. Mercy, resignation, politeness, restraint, gratitude, abstinence, losing well, apologizing, taking care: today, such behaviors are associated with negativity or lack. But the capacity to give way is better understood as positive action, at once intricate and demanding. Moving from intra-human common courtesies, to human-animal relations, to the global civility of human-inhuman ecological awareness, the book's argument unfolds on progressively larger scales. In reminding us of the existential threat our drives pose to our own survival, Steven Connor does not merely champion a family of behaviors; he shows that we are more adept practitioners of them than we realize. At a time when it is on the wane, Giving Way offers a powerful defense of civility, the versatile human capacity to deflect aggression into sociability and to exercise power over power itself.Trade Review"Can one be effusively enthusiastic or unreservedly supportive of a book that asks its audience to exercise restraint? Connor helped me see why civility might be one of the most radical things we can aspire to in the contemporary world. Giving Way gets to the root of what it means to be an ethical human being."—David Kishik, Emerson College"If anyone can persuade us of the merits of abstaining and refraining, holding back and backing down, it is Steven Connor, one of the most consistently interesting critics writing today. Displaying the author's characteristic blend of learnedness and verve, Giving Way is a bold, wide-ranging, and highly original work—a dazzling exercise in what he dubs cultural phenomenology."—Rita Felski, University of Virginia"Steven Connor once again demonstrates his ability to produce an erudite study that reveals the historical, literary, cultural, and philosophical dimensions of a seemingly mundane topic, examining human interaction and 'civility' from different, and often delightfully surprising, points of view."—Benet Davetian, University of Prince Edward Island"Connor's book, in my opinion, would be spellbinding for scholars working in performance studies as a field that endlessly frames, reframes and unframes its scope and dispositions by finding and giving way....Giving Way serves as a beacon of hope in the harsh competitiveness of a neoliberal world in which people cannot not do."—Mohammad Mehdi Kimagari, Critical Inquiry"This book is, at its core, about acting with reserve and within limits, and it has the rare distinction of being appropriate for readers of all stripes....An invaluable resource, particularly for those interested in moral philosophy and psychology. Essential."—S. E. Forschler, CHOICETable of Contents1. Modulating 2. Minding Your Tongue 3. Backing Down 4. Refraining 5. Apologizing 6. Losing Well 7. Taking Care Conclusion: Ministering
£23.39
Stanford University Press The Novel and the New Ethics
Book SynopsisFor a generation of contemporary Anglo-American novelists, the question "Why write?" has been answered with a renewed will to believe in the ethical value of literature. Dissatisfied with postmodernist parody and pastiche, a broad array of novelist-critics—including J.M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Gish Jen, Ian McEwan, and Jonathan Franzen—champion the novel as the literary genre most qualified to illuminate individual ethical action and decision-making within complex and diverse social worlds. Key to this contemporary vision of the novel's ethical power is the task of knowing and being responsible to people different from oneself, and so thoroughly have contemporary novelists devoted themselves to the ethics of otherness, that this ethics frequently sets the terms for plot, characterization, and theme. In The Novel and the New Ethics, literary critic Dorothy J. Hale investigates how the contemporary emphasis on literature's social relevance sparks a new ethical description of the novel's social value that is in fact rooted in the modernist notion of narrative form. This "new" ethics of the contemporary moment has its origin in the "new" idea of novelistic form that Henry James inaugurated and which was consolidated through the modernist narrative experiments and was developed over the course of the twentieth century. In Hale's reading, the art of the novel becomes defined with increasing explicitness as an aesthetics of alterity made visible as a formalist ethics. In fact, it is this commitment to otherness as a narrative act which has conferred on the genre an artistic intensity and richness that extends to the novel's every word.Trade Review"This is an astute and probing analysis of the patterns of thought that shape literary studies. Surveying the perspectives of both critics and novelists, Dorothy Hale offers a comprehensive anatomy of the belief that literature offers its readers an exemplary encounter with otherness. A must-read for anyone who is interested in the ethics or politics of literature."—Rita Felski, University of Virginia"The Novel and the New Ethics will be of interest to anyone working in literature, from the nineteenth century to contemporary fiction. But moral philosophers and those interested in the ethical character—or potential—of literature should also find much to enlighten them. Dorothy Hale's approach is undogmatic, her prose sprightly and clear, her judgments fair but shrewd—and, most important, they are not just asserted, but justified."—Maria DiBattista, Princeton University"In her critique of the new ethical theories raised – some of which have already achieved high degrees of notoriety in academic circles – Hale is indeed very incisive... [The] major takeaway from The Novel and the New Ethics is how Hale powerfully identifies a tradition of Anglo-American novelists who believe that novelistic aesthetics necessitates an ethical engagement with the other."—Manuel J. Sousa Oliveira, Cadernos de Literatura Comparada"The Novel and the New Ethics is a bold, compelling, and compendious book that should leave researchers plenty of other avenues of inquiry. Not only has Hale written a fascinating literary history, she has offered a definition of the novel as fundamentally driven by ethics that could well reverberate throughout literary criticism."—Frederick W. Feldman, College Literature"The Novel and the New Ethics is a valuable contribution to modern novel theory that is able to take the most glaring fault line in twentieth-century criticism—the divide between liberal humanism and poststructuralist ideological critique—as the starting point for a unified account of literature's ethical relationship to alterity. In addition to providing an excellent overview of new ethical interest in the novel, Hale's insights will be particularly useful for scholars interested in characterological approaches to the novel, in the relationship of contemporary literature to modernism, and in the enduring legacy of Henry James. The Novel and the New Ethics is also a refreshingly optimistic book, with the imaginative capacity to recast the internecine conflicts of the literary critical establishment as part of a larger cultural aspiration toward an ethical, though ever-faltering, engagement with otherness."—Benjamin Paul, Twentieth-Century Literature"Recommended."—K. Gale, CHOICE"When critics seek to offer an account of the novel, they are usually proposing instead a principle of selection. What is intriguing in Hale's works is how explicit, even foundational, she makes this operation.... It is impossible to read this book, in which everyone is closely tied to the practice of critical reading, and not reflect—sometimes uncomfortably, always profitably—on what we, as critical readers, do."—Jesse Rosenthal, Studies in the NovelTable of Contents1. The New Ethics and Contemporary Fiction 2. Henry James and the Development of the Novelistic Aesthetics of Alterity 3. Zadie's Smith's On Beauty: An Ethical Aesthetic as the Problem of Perspectivalism 4. J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello: The Tradition as the Sum of Its Parts 5. The New Ethics in the Academy: The Lesson of the Master, the Master as the Lesson Coda: Henry James in the Clinician's Office
£26.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Liquid Evil
Book SynopsisThere is nothing new about evil; it has been with us since time immemorial. But there is something new about the kind of evil that characterizes our contemporary liquid-modern world. The evil that characterized earlier forms of solid modernity was concentrated in the hands of states claiming monopolies on the means of coercion and using the means at their disposal to pursue their ends ends that were at times horrifically brutal and barbaric. In our contemporary liquid-modern societies, by contrast, evil has become altogether more pervasive and at the same time less visible. Liquid evil hides in the seams of the canvass woven daily by the liquid-modern mode of human interaction and commerce, conceals itself in the very tissue of human cohabitation and in the course of its routine and day-to-day reproduction. Evil lurks in the countless black holes of a thoroughly deregulated and privatized social space in which cutthroat competition and mutual estrangement have replaced cooperation and solidarity, while forceful individualization erodes the adhesive power of inter-human bonds. In its present form evil is hard to spot, unmask and resist. It seduces us by its ordinariness and then jumps out without warning, striking seemingly at random. The result is a social world that is comparable to a minefield: we know it is full of explosives and that explosions will happen sooner or later but we have no idea when and where they will occur.In this new book, the sequel to their acclaimed work Moral Blindness Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas Donskis guide the reader through this new terrain in which evil has become both more ordinary and more insidious, threatening to strip humanity of its dreams, alternative projects and powers of dissent at the very time when they are needed most.Table of Contents About This Book Introduction: On Liquid Evil and TINA Chapter 1: From a Person to a Nonperson? Mapping Guilt, Adiaphoa, Precariousness, and Austerity Chapter 2: From the Kafkaesque to the Orwellesque? War is Peace, and Peace is War Chapter 3: Where are the Great Promises of Modernity to be Found? Fear and Loathing in the Brave New World Chapter 4: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors? Manichaeism Revisited Notes Index
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Liquid Evil
Book SynopsisThere is nothing new about evil; it has been with us since time immemorial. But there is something new about the kind of evil that characterizes our contemporary liquid-modern world. The evil that characterized earlier forms of solid modernity was concentrated in the hands of states claiming monopolies on the means of coercion and using the means at their disposal to pursue their ends ends that were at times horrifically brutal and barbaric. In our contemporary liquid-modern societies, by contrast, evil has become altogether more pervasive and at the same time less visible. Liquid evil hides in the seams of the canvass woven daily by the liquid-modern mode of human interaction and commerce, conceals itself in the very tissue of human cohabitation and in the course of its routine and day-to-day reproduction. Evil lurks in the countless black holes of a thoroughly deregulated and privatized social space in which cutthroat competition and mutual estrangement have replaced cooperation and solidarity, while forceful individualization erodes the adhesive power of inter-human bonds. In its present form evil is hard to spot, unmask and resist. It seduces us by its ordinariness and then jumps out without warning, striking seemingly at random. The result is a social world that is comparable to a minefield: we know it is full of explosives and that explosions will happen sooner or later but we have no idea when and where they will occur.In this new book, the sequel to their acclaimed work Moral Blindness Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas Donskis guide the reader through this new terrain in which evil has become both more ordinary and more insidious, threatening to strip humanity of its dreams, alternative projects and powers of dissent at the very time when they are needed most.Table of Contents About This Book Introduction: On Liquid Evil and TINA Chapter 1: From a Person to a Nonperson? Mapping Guilt, Adiaphoa, Precariousness, and Austerity Chapter 2: From the Kafkaesque to the Orwellesque? War is Peace, and Peace is War Chapter 3: Where are the Great Promises of Modernity to be Found? Fear and Loathing in the Brave New World Chapter 4: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors? Manichaeism Revisited Notes Index
£15.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Global Ethics: An Introduction
Book SynopsisThis revised edition of Kimberly Hutchings’s best-selling textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of Global Ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalization. It offers an overview and assessment of key perspectives in Global Ethics and their implications for substantive moral issues in global politics. These include the morality of state and non-state violence, the obligations of rich to poor in a globalizing world, and the scope and nature of international human rights. The second edition contains expanded coverage of pressing contemporary issues relating to migration, changes in the technologies of war, and the global environment. Hutchings’s excellent book helps non-specialist students to understand the assumptions underpinning different moral traditions, and enables them to formulate their own views on how to approach moral judgement and prescription – essential in a world which, though it is shared by all, possesses massive cultural differences and inequalities of power.Trade Review'In this revised update to the classic first edition, Hutchings provides an intellectually dynamic, but also tangible, introduction to Global Ethics as both a field, and a practice. It serves as both a textbook, and a scholarly reference point, for students, instructors, academics and practitioners.'Brent J. Steele, University of Utah‘Kimberly Hutchings provides an ideal introduction to the increasingly complicated world of Global Ethics. The first edition was already outstanding, and the second edition goes further, including more from decolonial perspectives and connecting with growing literatures across all the most important areas. This text will be an essential addition to any student’s or scholar’s library.’Anthony Lang, University of St AndrewsTable of Contents Acknowledgements and Preface to the Second Edition List of Abbreviations 1 What is Global Ethics? 2 Rationalist Ethical Theories 3 Alternatives to Ethical Rationalism 4 Ethics of International Aid and Development 5 Global Distributive Justice 6 Ethics of War 7 Ethics of Making and Sustaining Peace 8 Global Ethics in a Glocal Context Glossary Index
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the
Book SynopsisHumans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing and we quail before 'the wakened giant'. The emergence of a conscious creature capable of using technology to bring about a rupture in the Earth's geochronology is an event of monumental significance, on a par with the arrival of civilisation itself. What does it mean to have arrived at this point, where human history and Earth history collide? Some interpret the Anthropocene as no more than a development of what they already know, obscuring and deflating its profound significance. But the Anthropocene demands that we rethink everything. The modern belief in the free, reflexive being making its own future by taking control of its environment – even to the point of geoengineering – is now impossible because we have rendered the Earth more unpredictable and less controllable, a disobedient planet. At the same time, all attempts by progressives to cut humans down to size by attacking anthropocentrism come up against the insurmountable fact that human beings now possess enough power to change the Earth's course. It's too late to turn back the geological clock, and there is no going back to premodern ways of thinking. We must face the fact that humans are at the centre of the world, even if we must give the idea that we can control the planet. These truths call for a new kind of anthropocentrism, a philosophy by which we might use our power responsibly and find a way to live on a defiant Earth.Trade Review"Defiant Earth is a major contribution to a topic that is of vital if not pre-eminent importance today. The book is highly original in its synthesis of the scientific, philosophical and religious issues raised by the coming of the 'Anthropocene.' Hamilton mines each of these traditions for ways to make sense of the new and frightening epoch that is upon us." - Adrian Wilding, University of Jena, Germany "For those entertaining the idea that we should just rocket away from an overheated planet to some new world, or perhaps fill the atmosphere with sulphur to block out the sun, here's a remarkably powerful accounting of our actual responsibility--past, present, and future." - Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Earth system scientists' idea of the Anthropocene has given rise to two seemingly rival camps of thought in the humanities: there are those who want to fold the idea back into new histories of global capital, and those who have used the debate to move towards a new philosophical anthropology. Clive Hamilton has been an original, important, and distinctive voice in this debate. Defiant Earth goes a long way towards bridging the distance between these rival camps while generating insights of its own into the meanings of being human in an age of planetary climate change. An essential reading for our times." - Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago"Drawing his observations from the humanities as much as the sciences, Hamilton offers a robust view of the current state of play; not a warning – we’re past that stage – but an attempt at understanding." - Geographical Magazine“The book is a deeply philosophical and intensively argumentative plea for all of us to reconcile ourselves with the looming planetary crisis that is now on our doorstep. It is not only beautifully written, but passionately argued … All books should aim for this stimulating provocation of thought, but it seems a rare accomplishment that few manage to achieve.”-ACUNS, Academic Council on the United Nations SystemTable of ContentsPreface: On waking up Acknowledgments 1 The Anthropocene Rupture A rupture in Earth history Volition in nature Earth System science Scientific misinterpretations The ecomodernist gloss An epoch by any other name 2 A New Anthropocentrism To doubt everything Anthropocentrism redux The antinomy of the Anthropocene The new anthropocentrism The world-making creature The new anthropocentrism versus ecomodernism In praise of technology 3 Friends and Adversaries Grand narratives are dead, until now After post-humanism The freak of nature The ontological wrong turn Recovering the cosmological sense? 4 A Planetary History? The significance of humans Does history have a meaning? An Enlightenment fable ‘Politics is fate’ 5 The Rise and Fall of the Super-agent Freedom is woven into nature-as-a-whole Responsibility is not enough Living without Utopia Notes Index
£37.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the
Book SynopsisHumans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing and we quail before 'the wakened giant'. The emergence of a conscious creature capable of using technology to bring about a rupture in the Earth's geochronology is an event of monumental significance, on a par with the arrival of civilisation itself. What does it mean to have arrived at this point, where human history and Earth history collide? Some interpret the Anthropocene as no more than a development of what they already know, obscuring and deflating its profound significance. But the Anthropocene demands that we rethink everything. The modern belief in the free, reflexive being making its own future by taking control of its environment – even to the point of geoengineering – is now impossible because we have rendered the Earth more unpredictable and less controllable, a disobedient planet. At the same time, all attempts by progressives to cut humans down to size by attacking anthropocentrism come up against the insurmountable fact that human beings now possess enough power to change the Earth's course. It's too late to turn back the geological clock, and there is no going back to premodern ways of thinking. We must face the fact that humans are at the centre of the world, even if we must give the idea that we can control the planet. These truths call for a new kind of anthropocentrism, a philosophy by which we might use our power responsibly and find a way to live on a defiant Earth.Trade Review"Defiant Earth is a major contribution to a topic that is of vital if not pre-eminent importance today. The book is highly original in its synthesis of the scientific, philosophical and religious issues raised by the coming of the 'Anthropocene.' Hamilton mines each of these traditions for ways to make sense of the new and frightening epoch that is upon us." - Adrian Wilding, University of Jena, Germany "For those entertaining the idea that we should just rocket away from an overheated planet to some new world, or perhaps fill the atmosphere with sulphur to block out the sun, here's a remarkably powerful accounting of our actual responsibility--past, present, and future." - Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Earth system scientists' idea of the Anthropocene has given rise to two seemingly rival camps of thought in the humanities: there are those who want to fold the idea back into new histories of global capital, and those who have used the debate to move towards a new philosophical anthropology. Clive Hamilton has been an original, important, and distinctive voice in this debate. Defiant Earth goes a long way towards bridging the distance between these rival camps while generating insights of its own into the meanings of being human in an age of planetary climate change. An essential reading for our times." - Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago"Drawing his observations from the humanities as much as the sciences, Hamilton offers a robust view of the current state of play; not a warning – we’re past that stage – but an attempt at understanding." - Geographical Magazine“The book is a deeply philosophical and intensively argumentative plea for all of us to reconcile ourselves with the looming planetary crisis that is now on our doorstep. It is not only beautifully written, but passionately argued … All books should aim for this stimulating provocation of thought, but it seems a rare accomplishment that few manage to achieve.”Academic Council on the United Nations System, ACUNS Table of ContentsPreface: On waking up Acknowledgments 1 The Anthropocene Rupture A rupture in Earth history Volition in nature Earth System science Scientific misinterpretations The ecomodernist gloss An epoch by any other name 2 A New Anthropocentrism To doubt everything Anthropocentrism redux The antinomy of the Anthropocene The new anthropocentrism The world-making creature The new anthropocentrism versus ecomodernism In praise of technology 3 Friends and Adversaries Grand narratives are dead, until now After post-humanism The freak of nature The ontological wrong turn Recovering the cosmological sense? 4 A Planetary History? The significance of humans Does history have a meaning? An Enlightenment fable ‘Politics is fate’ 5 The Rise and Fall of the Super-agent Freedom is woven into nature-as-a-whole Responsibility is not enough Living without Utopia Notes Index
£15.29
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race: A Philosophical Introduction
Book SynopsisThe third edition of Race: A Philosophical Introduction continues to provide the definitive guide to a topic of major contemporary importance. In this thoroughly updated and revised volume, Paul Taylor outlines the main features and implications of race-thinking, while engaging the ideas of important figures such as Linda Alcoff, K. Anthony Appiah, W. E. B. Du Bois, Michel Foucault and Sally Haslanger. The result is a comprehensive but accessible introduction to philosophical race theory and to a non-biological and situational notion of race, which blends metaphysics and social epistemology, aesthetics, analytic philosophy and pragmatic philosophy of experience. Taylor approaches the key questions in philosophy of race: What is race-thinking? Don’t we know better than to talk about race now? Are there any races? What is it like to have a racial identity? And how important, ethically, is color blindness? On the way to answering these questions, he takes up topics such as mixed-race identity, white supremacy, the relationship between the race concept and other social identity categories, and the impact of race-thinking on our erotic and romantic lives. The concluding section explores the racially fraught issues of policing, immigration, and global justice, and the implications of the political upheavals of the past decade, from the election of Donald Trump to the global upsurge in anti-immigrant populism. Updated throughout, Race remains a vital resource for the educated general reader as well as for students and scholars of ethnic studies, philosophy, sociology, and related fields.Trade Review“Nearly twenty years after its first publication, this book remains the gold standard in the field. This welcome new edition updates its treatment to keep up with the dramatic developments of recent years, above all the shift from the supposed advent of a post-racial United States, symbolized by the Obama presidency, to the unabashed invocation by Donald Trump of a white-supremacist past that had never really gone away.”Charles Mills, CUNY “Race: A Philosophical Introduction has proven itself time and time again to be the best introductory text on philosophy of race, with each new edition confirming this status. This third edition proves its worth with updated points of reference, reshaped arguments, and structural re-organization. The result is yet another original and incisive text that will benefit students and challenge scholars.”Chike Jeffers, Dalhousie UniversityTable of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Language of Race Prologue – Black Power Mixup 1.1. Race-talk and the invitation to philosophy 1.2 Setting the context 1.3. Taking race seriously 1.4. Words vs. things 1.5. What do you mean, “we”? 1.6. What race-talk does Bodies (appearance) Bloodlines (ancestry) Assigning generic meaning 1.7. Modern racialism 1.8. Politics and method Politics and context Systems and structures Process and power 1.9 Conclusion 2. Unnatural Histories Prologue – When were Mona’s dumplings? 2.1. Introduction 2.2. The pre-modern background 2.3. Early modern racialism Table 2.1. The (early) stages of modern racialism, 1492–1923 2.4. High modern interpretations of race 2.5. High modern racial structures The racial state Consolidating whiteness 2.6. Classical racialism vs. critical racialism 2.7. Late-modern racialism Table 2.2. The stages of modern racialism, continued, 1923–2021 On the meaning of civil rights Transition: The Moynihan Report 2.8. Post-modern racialism 2.9. Conclusion 3. Three Challenges to Race-Thinking Prologue – Not Black Black; or, The Wobbly, The Rasta, and the Ex-White Man 3.1 Introduction 3.2. Isn’t race-thinking unethical? 3.3. What racism is 3.4. Isn’t racial biology false? 3.4.1 The first problem – splitting and discreteness 3.4.2. The second problem – lumping and clusters 3.4.3. The third problem – against inheritance 3.5. Isn’t the race concept just in the way? 3.5.1 Ethnicity 3.5.2 Nation 3.5.3 Class 3.5.4 Caste 3.5.5 Sex/gender 3.6. Mergers and injunctions 3.7 Conclusion 4. What Races Are: Twenty Questions about Racial Metaphysics Prologue – Race Is, Race Ain’t 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Subjects and objects, concepts and conceptions 4.3. Patterns and proposals, Cornish and criticism 4.4. Language and reality, irony and asterisks 4.5. Cost and benefit, culture and nature 4.6. Conclusion 5. Ethics, Existence, Experience Prologue – Pure; or, The Fourth Life of Mona Rogers 5.1. Introduction: Who has believed our report 5.2. Ethical eliminativism (the anti-racist challenge, continued) The slippery slope and the argument from political realism The argument from self-realization 5.3. Existence, identity, and despair The basics Despair and doubt, joy and pain Double consciousness Micro-diversity 5.4. Beyond the black-white binary Latinx peoples, outsider racialization, and the gendered substratum Asian peoples and model minority racialization Native Americans and savagism Arabs, Muslims, and the terrorist panic 5.5 Experience, invisibility, and embodiment The basics Invisibility and the other mind–body problem From the ontic to the ontological 5.6 Conclusion 6. The Color Question Prologue – Keanu and the Promotion; or, good job, good teeth 6.1 Introduction 6.2. The ethics of endogamy 6.3. Choices in context 6.4. Weighing some arguments for endogamy 6.5. Self-criticism and social criticism 6.6. Culture, privacy, and policy 6.7. Color and culture 6.8. Affirmative action: background and arguments 6.9. Affirmative action: suspect classifications 6.10. Conclusion 7. A funny thing happened on the way to post-racialism Prologue – What’s What We’ll See; or, Nine-Inch Knives and Six-Inch Stimuli 7.1. La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) 7.2. On post-racialism 7.3. What the Obamas meant 7.4. The nexus of immigration and race 7.5. Immigration enforcement as a racial problem 7.6. Immigration politics as a racial project 7.7. Globalization 7.8. Securitization 7.9. Conclusion: post-post-racialism and the first white president Further Reading Notes Index
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