The turn to ethics

by Garber, Marjorie B. Hanssen, Beatrice Walkowitz, Rebecca L.

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What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory. The philosophers, political theorists, literary critics and physician whose essays are collected here bring the particularities of their disciplines and training to a vital complex of questions.

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Full title :The turn to ethics / edited by Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz.

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Publication Date:2000.

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Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000.

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Proceedings of a conference.

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Description:1 online resource (xii, 238 pages)

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ISBN:9781135205263, 1135205264, 1299979165, 9781299979161
oclc:ocn860711074
LC Classification:BJ19
Dewey Decimal:170

Introduction : The turn to ethics / Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz -- What we talk about when we talk about ethics / Lawrence Buell -- Ethical ambivalence / Judith Butler -- The ethical practice of modernity : the example of reading / John Guillory -- Using people : Kant with Winnicott / Barbara Johnson -- The best intentions : newborn technologies and bioethical borderlines / Perri Klass -- Which ethics for democracy? / Chantal Mouffe -- Recognition without ethics? / Nancy Fraser -- Ethics of the other / Beatrice Hanssen -- On cultural choice / Homi K. Bhabha -- Attitude, its rhetoric / Doris Sommer -- Cosmopolitan ethics : the home and the world / Rebecca L. Walkowitz.

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Conference papers and proceedings Electronic books Ethics Ethics -- Congresses Ethiek Ethik Morale Morale -- Congrès PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy PHILOSOPHY -- Social