The Ethical

The Ethical is a collection of readings on ethics and the nature of morality by some of the most important contemporary philosophers in the continental tradition. Presents penetrating discussions of the ethical as it is treated in Continental philosophy. Provides the foundation for further study of the continental treatment of ethical issues. Includes newly commissioned essays by prominent philosophers. Offers comparison between Continental and Anglo-American ethics.

Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction: About the Ethical: Edith Wyschogrod (Rice University) and Gerald P. McKenny (University of Notre Dame). Part I: Phenomenology and Beyond:. 1. Kantianism and Phenomenology: Steven G. Crowell (Rice University). 2. The Original Otherness of the Ego: A Rereading of Descartes’s; Meditatio II: Jean-Luc Marion (University of Paris). 3. Towards a Postmodern Ethics: Corporeality and Alterity: Edith Wyschogrod (Rice University). 4. Phenomenology: Ethics, Value, and the Subject: Charles E. Scott (Pennsylvania State University). Part II: Aporias of Justice:. 5. Discourse Ethics: William Rehg (Saint Louis University). 6. Philosophy and Law: Questioning Justice: Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto). Part III: Analytics of Self-Formation:. 7. Kristeva's Ethics of Crisis: Art and Abjection, Love and Melancholia: Tina Chanter (De Paul University). 8. Toward an Anthropology of Ethics: Foucault and the Pedagogies of Autopoiesis: James D. Faubion (Rice University). Part IV: (Ethics) Beyond the Ethical?. 9. Against Principles: A Sketch of an Ethics without Ethics: John D. Caputo (Villanova University). 10. The Good, the Bad and the Virtual: Ethics in the Age of Information: Mark Poster (University of Californaia at Irvine). 11. The Immoralist: Alphonso Lingis (Pennsylvania State University). Name Index. Subject Index.