Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Ganis, Richard

Title The politics of care in Habermas and Derrida : between measurability and immeasurability / Richard Ganis
Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2011

Copies

Description 1 online resource (viii, 163 pages)
Contents Care and justice: competing conceptions of the moral? -- Care as unqualified gift: Derrida's (im)possible visitation -- Caring for nature in Habermas and Derrida: reconciling the speaking and nonspeaking worlds at the cost of "re-enchantment"? -- "Habermasian care" versus "Derridean care": asymmetry or accord? -- Taking the measure of care
Summary The Politics of Care in Habermas and Derrida provides a penetrating analysis of the tensions and possibilities that animate the dialogue between two of the most significant frameworks of moral philosophy in the contemporary Continental tradition. The dispute between Habermasian discourse ethics and Derridean deconstruction is the backdrop for the book's excursus on the problem of care for the "otherness of the other"--A question with profound implications at the level of both ethics and politics. Inaddressing this problem, the study reaches beyond the idioms of Habermas and Derrida and consider
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Habermas, Jürgen
Derrida, Jacques
SUBJECT Derrida, Jacques fast
Habermas, Jürgen fast
Subject Caring.
Humanity.
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Humanity
Caring
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021678607
ISBN 9780739150115
0739150111
1282977024
9781282977020