The Continental Ethics Reader

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-94329-1
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

The Continental Ethics Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of classic writings on ethics and moral philosophy from the major figures in Continental thought. The carefully selected readings are divided into five sections: Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Existentialism, Critical Theory, Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis and Feminism. All of the authors and their writings are introduced and placed in philosophical context by the editors.

The Continental Ethics Reader is an ideal point of entry to the most pressing issues and most important thinkers of the Continental tradition, and provides a thorough and much needed introduction to the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Calarco, Matthew

Atterton, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part 1. Phenomenology
1. Lordship and Bondage: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

2. Fifth Meditation: Edmund Husserl
3. Formalism in Ethics and Nonformal Ethics of Values: Max Scheler

4.Being and Time: Martin Heidegger
5. Philosophy and the Idea of Infinity: Emmanuel Levinas

Part 2. Existentialism
6. Is there a Teleological Suspension of the Ethical?: Soren Kierkegaard
7. On the Genealogy of Morals: Friedrich Nietzsche
8. I and Thou: Martin Buber
9. Existentialism is a Humanism: Jean-Paul Sartre
10. Letter on "Humanism": Martin Heidegger

Part 3. Critical Theory
11. Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin
12. Enlightenment and Morality: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno

13. One-Dimensional Man: Herbert Marcuse
14. On the Pragmatic, the Ethical, and the Moral Employments of Practical Reason: Jurgen Habermas

Part 4. Postmodernism
15. The Notion of Expenditure: Georges Bataille
16. Substitution: Emmanuel Levinas
17. The Differend: Jean-François Lyotard
18. On the Genealogy of Ethics: Michel Foucault
19. Passions: Jacques Derrida
20. Private Irony and Liberal Hope: Richard Rorty

Part 5. Psychoanalysis and Feminism
21. The Super-Ego: Sigmund Freud
22. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: Jacques Lacan
23. Desiring Machines: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
24. The Ethics of Sexual Difference: Luce Irigaray
25. The Laugh of the Medusa: Hélène Cixous
26. Women's Time: Julia Kristeva

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Calarco is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sweet Briar College. Peter Atterton teaches philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.