Ethics Embodied

Erin McCarthy is associate professor of philosophy at St. Lawrence University and a member of the board of directors of ASIANetwork.

• Chapter 1 - An IntroductionPart 2 Part 1 - A Heuristic FrameworkPart 3 Part 2 - Outline of the BookChapter 4 Chapter 2 - Towards a New Ethical Framework: Watsuji in Dialogue with the WestPart 5 Part 1 - Ethics and the Human Being as NingenPart 6 Part 2 - Heidegger: "the Solitary Self"Part 7 Part 3 - Husserl: Moving Towards a Relational SelfChapter 8 Chapter 3 - The Embodied SelfPart 9 Part 1 - Husserl and the BodyPart 10 Part 2 - Body East and WestPart 11 Part 3 - Ningen, Ethics, and the BodyPart 12 Part 4 - Yuasa's Theory of the BodyChapter 13 Chapter 4 - Towards an Embodied Ethics of CarePart 14 Part 1 - Care Ethics: East and WestPart 15 Part 2 - Care Ethics and the BodyPart 16 Part 3 - ReciprocityPart 17 Part 4 - Global Care EthicsChapter 18 Chapter 5 - Body, Self and Ethics: Watsuji and IrigarayPart 19 Part 1 - Subjects in BetweennessPart 20 Part 2 - Bodies in BetweennessPart 21 Part 3 - Between and Beyond Watsuji and IrigarayChapter 22 Chapter 6 - Conclusion

McCarthy writes with a clarity that shows how deeply she has thought about, and cared about, the encounter of Western feminist thinking with Japanese philosophy. Not only has she made difficult texts accessible to the general reader, she has succeeded in making them relevant to an important range of contemporary ethical questions. This little book represents yet another landmark in the opening of Western philosophy to the remarkable insight of an intellectual tradition whose contributions to discussions of the body are irreplaceable.