ABSTRACT
Opening with a series of critical exchanges on the moral significance of memory, history and value (Ricoeur, Kearney, Barash, Greisch), the volume proceeds to the question of the role of responsibility and justice in deconstruction (Derrida, Caputo, Wood, Glendinning). The third section of the book comprises some of the most innovative thinkers in critical theory, debating such controversial issues as democracy (Habermas), multiculturalism (Apel) and public reason (McCarthy, Rasmussen). The fourth part features three pioneering theorists of current controversies in the ethics and politics of psychoanalysis (Richardson, Kristeva, Critchley). A final section deals with three applications of these theories to the moral challenges of post-Enlightenment reason (MacIntyre), feminism (Cooke), and bioethics (Kemp).
