{"product_id":"why-ethics-signs-of-responsibilities-9780691009636","title":"Why Ethics  Signs of Responsibilities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a combination of intellectual traditions, including Jewish thought, continental philosophy, and American pragmatism, this book argues that ethics is concerned with responsibility and is not, as philosophers assume, a matter of thinking about the right thing to do and acting in accordance with the abstract dictates of reason or will.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this thought-provoking new book, Gibbs centers ethics on personal responsibility ...He combines analysis of the Talmud with the pragmatics of Charles Peirce, George Herbert Mead, and Jurgen Habermas in an unusual and illuminating way.\"--Library Journal \"[An] excellent, challenging work... In focusing on responsibility, Gibbs clearly seeks to change the parameters of ethical inquiry. Yet what makes his work so successful is that it takes modern ethics seriously even while questioning it, seeking to hear its concerns while repairing the harm and suffering its excesses have caused. It ... provides an excellent model for how religious ethics can both take responsibility for and transform modern inquiry.\"--William W. Young III, Theological Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi  Abbreviations and Notes on Citations xiii  Introduction Why Questions? 3  A. The Response in Responsibility 3  B. Signs 6  C. Commentaries l0  D. A Map 13  E. The Authors and Texts 23  Part I: Attending the Future 27  Chapter 1: Why Listen? 29  A. Attending the Teacher 31  B. Asymmetry 35  C. Receiving the World 37  D. The Face and Consciosness 40  E. Apology 44  Chapter 2 Why Speak? 47  A. The Saving 48  B. Bodily Signifying 50  C. Saying the Saying 58  D. Witness to Glory 61  Chapter 3: Why Write? 66  A. Writing Withdratual 67  B. Saying and Writing 74  C. The Trace and Crossing out 79  Chapter 4: Why Read? 86  A. The Hidden Thread 87  B. Closure of Philosophy 89  C. Re-citation 95  Chapter 5: Why Comment? 114  A. The Written Command 115  B. Reading and Separation 116  C. Commentaries 123  Part II: Presentjudgments 131  Chapter 6: Why Reason? 133  A. The Third and Justice 134  B. Mutuality and Justice 141  C. Mutuality and Asymmetry 145  Chapter 7: Why Mediate? 156  A. Communication and Love 157  B. Media for Communication 167  C. Mediating Consensus 171  Chapter 8: Why Judge? 178  A. Attribution 180  B. We and Ye 182  C. Universality and the Outside 187  D. Judgment Day 192  E. Unjust Judgment 200  Chapter 9: Why Law? 210  A. Justifying the World 211  B. Preserving Contradictions 214 '  C Judgment and the Oppressed 218  Part III: Pragmatism, Pragmatics, and Method 225  Chapter 10: Why Verify? 227  A. Performative Method 229  B. Empiricisms: Absolute and Radical 234  C. Pragmatism and Pragmaticism 239  Chapter 11: Why Thirds? 246  A. The Third Person 247  B. Interpretation and Thirds 251  Chapter 12: Why Me? 258  A. Interpreters and Signs 259  B. Me and I 259  C. The Indeclinable Accusative (Me) 272  Chapter 13: Why Translate? 278  A. Reason and Jewish Sources 280  B. Jewish New Thinking 286  C. Contemporary Translation 290  D. A Necessary Trial 298  Part IV: Repenting History 305  Chapter 14: Why Repent? 307  A. Return 308  B. Great Is Repentance 310  C. Social Repentance 319  Chapter 15: Why Confess? 325  A. Confessing Orally 326  B. Performance of the \"I\" 329  C. Confession of Love 334  Chapter 16 Why Forgive? 338  A. Forgive or Forget 339  B. Changing the Past 341  C. Being Forgiven 345  Chapter 17: Why Remember? 354  A. Calendars 355  B. Historiography 362  C. Ruins and Remnants 372  Epilogue Postmodern Jewish Philosophy and Modernity 380  Pretext Index 385  Name Index 391  Subject Index 395","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403673084247,"sku":"9780691009636","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691009636.jpg?v=1730484217","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/why-ethics-signs-of-responsibilities-9780691009636","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}