| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) |
| Series |
Culture work |
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Culture work.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Proceedings of a conference |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethics -- Congresses
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Ethics
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
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Ethics
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Ethik
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Ethiek.
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Morale.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Garber, Marjorie B
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Hanssen, Beatrice
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Walkowitz, Rebecca L., 1970-
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| ISBN |
9781135205263 |
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1135205264 |
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1299979165 |
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9781299979161 |
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