The Turn to Ethics / Edition 1

by Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen, Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415922265
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/11/2000
Series:	CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marjorie Garber is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. She is Editor of the Routledge book series CultureWork and author of Symptoms of Culture. Beatrice Hanssen is Associate Professor of German at Harvard University and author of Critique of Violence: Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory. Rebecca L. Walkowitz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Associate Editor of the CultureWork series.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 What We Talk About When We Talk About Ethics, Lawrence Buell; Chapter 2 Ethical Ambivalence, Judith Butler; Chapter 3 The Ethical Practice of Modernity, John Guillory; Chapter 4 Using People, Barbara Johnson; Chapter 5 The Best Intentions, Perri Klass; Chapter 6 Which Ethics for Democracy?, Chantal Mouffe; Chapter 7 Recognition without Ethics?, Nancy Fraser; Chapter 8 Ethics of the Other, Beatrice Hanssen; Chapter 9 On Cultural Choice, Homi K. Bhabha; Chapter 10 Atttitude, Its Rhetoric, Doris Sommer; Chapter 11 Cosmopolitan Ethics, Rebecca L. Walkowitz;

Editorial Reviews

"The contributors to this fine collection are from a wide range of backgrounds, including literary studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and pediactrics... a careful reading of each essay is a richly rewarding experience." — Nicholas Pagan

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