Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in Continental Philosophy - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415180341 ISBN 13: 9780415180344

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

This major discussion takes a look at some of the most important ethical issues confronting us today by some of the world’s leading thinkers. Including essays from leading thinkers, such as Jurgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Julia Kristeva and Paul Ricoeur, the book’s highlight – an interview with Jacques Derrida - presents the most accessible insight into his thinking on ethics and politics for many years. Exploring topics ranging from history, memory, revisionism, and the self and responsibility to democracy, multiculturalism, feminism and the future of politics, the essays are grouped into five thematic sections:

* hermeneutics

* deconstruction

* critical theory

* psychoanalysis

* applied ethics.

Each section considers the challenges posed by ethics and how critical thinking has transformed philosophy today. Questioning Ethics affords an unsurpassed overview of the state of ethical thinking today by some of the world’s foremost philosophers.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Kearney and Mark Dooley are both Professors of Philosophy at University College Dublin. Kearney is of numerous books, including Postnationalist Ireland (Routledge 1996).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415180341
• ISBN 13: 9780415180344
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Dooley Mark, Kearney Richard