What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory. The philosophers, political theorists, literary critics and physician whose essays are collected here bring the particularities of their disciplines and training to a vital complex of questions.
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"The contributors to this fine collection are from a wide range of backgrounds, including literary studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and pediactrics... a careful reading of each essay is a richly rewarding experience." -- Nicholas Pagan
Introduction: The Turn to Ethics vii Marjorie Garber Beatrice Hanssen Rebecca L. Walkowitz What We Talk About When We Talk About Ethics 1(14) Lawrence Buell Ethical Ambivalence 15(14) Judith Butler The Ethical Practice of Modernity: The Example of Reading 29(18) John Guillory Using People: Kant with Winnicott 47(18) Barbara Johnson The Best Intentions: Newborn Technologies and Bioethical Borderlines 65(20) Perri Klass Which Ethics for Democracy? 85(10) Chantal Mouffe Recognition without Ethics? 95(32) Nancy Fraser Ethics of the Other 127(54) Beatrice Hanssen On Cultural Choice 181(20) Homi K. Bhabha Attitude, Its Rhetoric 201(20) Doris Sommer Cosmopolitan Ethics: The Home and the World 221(10) Rebecca L. Walkowitz Contributors 231(4) Index 235
Marjorie Garber is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. She is Editor of the Routledge book series CultureWork and author of Symptoms of Culture. BeatriceHanssen is Associate Professor of German at Harvard University and author of Critique of Violence: BetweenPoststructuralism and Critical Theory. Rebecca L.Walkowitz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Associate Editor of the CultureWork series.