The turn to ethics / edited by Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz.

Other author Garber, Marjorie B.
Other author Hanssen, Beatrice.
Other author Walkowitz, Rebecca L., 1970-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2000.
Descriptionxii, 238 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
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SeriesCulture work
Culture work. ^A561708
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.
Abstract 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.
General noteProceedings of a conference.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formConference proceedings.
Genre/formConference papers and proceedings.
LCCN 99053685
ISBN0415922259 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN9780415922258 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN0415922267 (pbk.)
ISBN9780415922265 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks BJ19 .T87 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold