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In
The Ethics of Postmodernity, Gary B. Madison and Marty Fairbairn have collected instructive and illuminating essays that address the dilemmas left in the wake of the postmodern attack on foundationalism. This collection is a powerful statement on the many directions a postmetaphysical ethics might take.
Contributors include Barry Allen, Caroline Bayard, Robert Bernasconi, Thomas W. Busch, M.C. Dillon, Marty Fairbairn, Paul Fairfield, Morny Joy, Richard Kearney, Gary B. Madison, Joseph Margolis, Tom Rockmore, Charles E. Scott, Evan Simpson, and Mark Williams.
Synopsis
In The Ethics of Postmodernity, Gary B. Madison and Marty Fairbairn have collected instructive and illuminating essays that address the dilemmas left in the wake of the postmodern attack on foundationalism. This collection is a powerful statement on the many directions a postmetaphysical ethics might take.
About the Author
Gary Madison is an emeritus professor of philosophy at McMaster University, and the editor of Working Through Derrida, published by Northwestern University Press in 1993.
Marty Fairbairn writes film criticism for the journal film-philosophy and is the author of Cinema as Secular Temple: A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Film Experience.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Gary B. Madison and Marty Fairbairn
1. The Crisis of the Image: Levinas's Ethical Response
Richard Kearney
2. The Truth that Accuses: Coinscience, Shame, and Guilt in Levinas and Augustine
Robert Bernasconi
3. Moral Optimism
Joseph Margolis
4. More Hegelian Doubts about Discourse Ethics
Tom Rockmore
5. Lyotard's Ethical Challenges: Meditations for the End of a Century
Caroline Bayard
6. Disabling Knowledge
Barry Allen
7. Natural Law and Sexual Morality
M.C. Dillon
8. Reconstructing Rorty's Ethics: Styles, Languages, and Vocabularies of Moral Deliberation
Evan Simpson and Mark Williams
9. Hermeneutical Ethical Theory
Paul Fairfield
10. Phenomenology and Communicative Ethics: Husserl, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty
Thomas W. Busch
11. The Ethics and Politics of the Flesh
Gary B. Madison
12. Metaphor and Metamorphosis: Luce Irigaray and an Erotics of Ethics and Hermeneutics
Morny Joy
13. The Sense of Transcendence and the Question of Ethics
Charles E. Scott
Notes