A key issue in economic discourse today is the relation (or lack of it) between economic behaviour and morality. Few (presumably) would want to deny that human beings are in some sense moral or ethical creatures, but the devil is in the detail. Should we think of economic behavi…
This book assesses the ethical implications of using armed unmanned aerial vehicles (' hunter-killer drones') in contemporary conflicts. The American way of war is trending away from the heroic and towards the post-heroic, driven by a political preference for air-powered managem…
This text exposes the audacious attempts of companies to appropriate medical breakthroughs, public airwaves, outer space, state research, and even the DNA of plants and animals. It is an attempt to develop a new ethos of commonwealth in the face of a market ethic that knows no b…
Acknowledgements p. vii Introduction p. 1 1 Kant and Enlightenment Recognition p. 25 2 Heidegger: Proximity and Dispersion p. 55 3 Derrida: Responsibility without Autonomy p. 93 4 Irigaray: The Specula(ra)tive Ec(h)onomy p. 129 5 Foucault: Anti-Representationalism and Logophobia…
