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.

chapter |14 pages

Ethical Ambivalence

chapter |18 pages

The Ethical Practice of Modernity

The Example of Reading

chapter |17 pages

Using People

Kant with Winnicott

chapter |19 pages

The Best Intentions

Newborn Technologies and Bioethical Borderlines

chapter |10 pages

Which Ethics for Democracy?

chapter |32 pages

Recognition without Ethics?

chapter |53 pages

Ethics of the Other

chapter |20 pages

On Cultural Choice

chapter |20 pages

Atttitude, Its Rhetoric

chapter |10 pages

Cosmopolitan Ethics

The Home and the World