Situating the Self

Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics

Seyla Benhabib (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

1992
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-1059-7 (ISBN)

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Focusing on contemporary debates in moral and political theory, Situating the Self argues that a non--relative ethics, binding on us in virtue of out humanity, is still a philosophically viable project.

Focusing on contemporary debates in moral and political theory, Situating the Self argues that a non-relative ethics, binding on us in virtue of out humanity, is still a philosophically viable project. This intersting new book should be read by all those concerned with the problems of critical theory, the analysis of modernity, and contemporary ethics, as well as students and professionals in philosophy, sociology and political science.

Seyla Benhabib has authored Critique, Norm, and Utopia, and is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. She is author of

Acknowledgements. Induction.

Part I. Modernity, Morality and Ethical:.

1. In the Shadow of Aristotle and Hegel.

2. Autonomy, Modernity and Community.

3. Models of Public Space.

4. Judgements and the Moral Foundations of Politics in Hannah Arendt's Thought.

Part II. Autonomy, Feminism and Postmodernism:.

5. The Generalized and the Concrete Other.

6. The Debate over Women and Moral Theory Revisited.

7. Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism.

8. On Hegel, Women and Irony.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.6.1992
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 228 mm
Gewicht	369 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7456-1059-5 / 0745610595
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-1059-7 / 9780745610597
Zustand	Neuware