Essays on Ethics and Feminism

✍ Scribed by Sabina Lovibond;

• Publisher: OUP Premium
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

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Essays on Ethics and Feminism
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Contents
Introduction
Essay 1: Feminism and Postmodernism
1 The Ideal of Consensus
2 Positive Liberty
3 Tradition and Modernity
4 ‘Dynamic Pluralism’
5 Nietzsche and the Enlightenment
6 The Attack on Universality
7 MacIntyre’s Moral Epistemology
8 ‘Pluralism of Inclination’
Essay 2: Feminism and Pragmatism: A Reply to Richard Rorty
1 In the Service of Feminism?
2 Reality and Imagination
3 Feminism and Conceptual Innovation
4 The Question of Legitimation
5 On Essentialism
6 The Work of Active Self-Definition
Essay 3: Feminism and the ‘Crisis of Rationality’
1 Reason and Masculinity
2 A Feminist Cogito
3 The Problem of Criteria
4 Prospects for Subjectivity
5 Who Is ‘Modern’?
Essay 4: Meaning What We Say: Feminist Ethics and the Critique of Humanism
1 Liberal and Radical Feminisms
2 Constructing the Self
3 Saying What You Mean
4 No Means No
5 Profound Superficiality
6 Crediting Agency with Authority
7 The Footpath of Freedom
Essay 5: The Feminist Stake in Greek Rationalism
Essay 6: ‘Gendering’ as an Ethical Concept
Essay 7: Ethical Upbringing: From Connivance to Cognition
Essay 8: Absolute Prohibitions without Divine Promises
Essay 9: Religion and Modernity: Living in the Hypercontext
Essay 10: ‘In Spite of the Misery of the World’: Ethics, Contemplation, and the Source of Value
Essay 11: ‘Ethical Living’ in the Media and in Philosophy
Essay 12: Selflessness and Other Moral Baggage
Essay 13: Nietzsche on Distance, Beauty, and Truth
Essay 14: Iris Murdoch and the Ambiguity of Freedom
Bibliography
Principal publications by Sabina Lovibond
Books (as author)
Books (as co-editor)
Essays (other than those included in this collection)
Forthcoming
Acknowledgements
Index