Ethics and the Between

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Articulates the necessity for a comprehensive reconstructive thinking about the meaning of being good.In Ethics and the Between William Desmond addresses our current perplexities regarding the devaluation of being in modernity and the shadow of ethical nihilism. He rethinks the sources of value, the diverse ethical ways, the nature of ethical selving and communities, and articulates the necessity for a comprehensive reconstructive thinking about the meaning of being good, consonant with the response to the question of being in Being and the Between, the first book of a planned trilogy.

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Utgivningsdatum2001-01-25
Mått152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt717 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Philosophy
Antal sidor544
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791448489

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William Desmond is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the International Program of Philosophy in the Higher Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Louvain), Belgium. He is the author of many books, including Being and Between, which won both the Prix Cardinal Mercier Award in 1995, as well as the J. N. Findlay Award of the Metaphysical Society of America for the best book in metaphysics.

(Abridged)IntroductionPart I. Ethos1. The Ethos: Being As Worthy/Being As WorthlessPart II: Ethical Ways2. Ethos and Univocal Ethics3. Ethos and Equivocal Ethics4. Ethos and Dialectical Ethics5. Ethos and Metaxological EthicsPart III: Ethical Selvings6. First Ethical Selving: The Idiocy of Root Will7. Second Ethical Selving: The Redoubling of Will8. Third Ethical Selving: The Becoming of Freedom9. Fourth Ethical Selving: Dialectical Autonomy10. Fifth Ethical Selving: Erotic Sovereignty11. Sixth Ethical Selving: Agapeic Service and Friendship12. Seventh Ethical Selving: Released Freedom and the Passion of BeingPart IV: Ethical Communities13. The Familial Community of the Intimate: The Ethical Intermediation of the Idiot14. The Network of Serviceable Disposability: The Instrumental Intermediation of the Aesthetic15. The Community of Erotic Sovereignty: The Intermediation of Immanent Excellence16. The Community of Agapeic Service: The Intermediation of Transcendent GoodIndex

"This is a truly important work by one of the most interesting thinkers writing today. It is a profound phenomenological—metaphysical reflection on the basis of ethics, and the ways in which we can be faithful or unfaithful to this basis. At the same time there is nothing programmatic in it: We are offered a comprehensive treatment of the milieu of ethics, how we can go generally right or wrong in our after–the–fact constructions, but also the various specific regions of ethics, like family relations. If the ambition is extraordinary, so also is the accomplishment. Its reach is greater than any book on ethics that I know." — Cyril O'Regan, author of The Heterodox Hegel"I like its originality, synthetic quality, and insight....a first-rate work by a first-rate mind." — James L. Marsh, author of Critique, Action, and Liberation