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Situating the self : gender, community and postmodernism in contemporary ethics

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.
Print Book, English, 1992
Polity Press, Cambridge, 1992
Aufsatzsammlung
VIII, 266 Seiten
9780745609980, 9780745610597, 0745609988, 0745610595
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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.