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Difficulties of ethical life

Shannon Sullivan and Dennis J. Schmidt
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction (Shannon Sullivan and Dennis J. Schmidt, page 1)
  • PART I: QUESTIONS OF ETHICS
    • 1 In the Name of Goodness (Charles E. Scott, page 11)
    • 2 What Is Philosophical Ethics? (Günter Figal, page 25)
    • 3 Hermeneutics as Original Ethics (Dennis J. Schmidt, page 35)
  • PART II: THE ETHICS OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
    • 4 Ethical Experience, Ethical Subjectivity (Simon Critchley, page 51)
    • 5 9/11: America and the Politics of Innocence (Debra B. Bergoffen, page 72)
    • 6 Engage the Enemy: Cavell, Comedies of Remarriage, and the Politics of Friendship (Cynthia Willett, page 88)
    • 7 The Intimacy of Strangers: The Difficulty of Closeness and the Ethics of Distance (Eduardo Mendieta, page 112)
  • PART III: RESPONSIBILITY AND RACE
    • 8 Before Whom and for What? Accountability and the Invention of Ministerial, Hyperbolic, and Infinite Responsibility (Robert Bernasconi, page 131)
    • 9 Racism and Responsibility (Ladelle McWhorter, page 147)
    • 10 Whiteness as Family: Race, Class, and Responsibility (Shannon Sullivan, page 162)
  • PART IV: THE ETHICS OF NONTRUTH
    • 11 Narrating Pain: The Ethics of Catharsis (Richard Kearney, page 181)
    • 12 On Deception: Radical Evil and the Destruction of the Archive (Peg Birmingham, page 195)
  • Notes (page 213)
  • Contributors (page 239)
  • Index (page 243)
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Published: c2008
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780823229734 (hardcover)
  • 9780823229741 (paper)
Series
  • Fordham Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Subject
  • Philosophy
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