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Description for The Ethical
Hardback. The essays indicate both the history of reflection on ethics in Continental thought as well as its contemporary viability. Readers will find discussions of the ethical as it is treated in the phenomenological, genealogical, deconstructive and discourse ethical currents of Continental philosophy. Editor(s): Wyschogrod, Edith; McKenny, Gerald. Series: Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 177 x 22. Weight in Grams: 570.
The Ethical is a collection of readings on ethics and the nature of morality by some of the most important contemporary philosophers in the continental tradition.
- Presents penetrating discussions of the ethical as it is treated in Continental philosophy.
- Provides the foundation for further study of the continental treatment of ethical issues.
- Includes newly commissioned essays by prominent philosophers.
- Offers comparison between Continental and Anglo-American ethics.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631215523
SKU
V9780631215523
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About Wyschogrod
Edith Wyschogrod is J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. She is author of several books including An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology and the Nameless Others (1998), Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy (1990), and Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics (1974). Gerald P. McKenny is Associate Professor of Ethics in the ... Read more
Reviews for The Ethical
"Wyschogrod and McKenny have assembled a splendid collection of essays by the leading theorists of the day in Continentalist ethical thought. Singly, and as a group, these essays make it plain that contemporary Continental philosophy not only has an ethical dimension but that ethics is one of the points in which its full force can really be felt. Justice and ... Read more