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On the advantages and disadvantages of ethics and politics
- Title
- On the advantages and disadvantages of ethics and politics / Charles E. Scott.
- Author
- Scott, Charles E.
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BJ1031 .S368 1996 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 216 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In his challenging new book, Charles E. Scott examines the paradox that our ethical and political ideals may perpetuate the very evils they intend to prevent. He takes as his point of departure the question of ethics: that values and their pursuit in the West often perpetuate their own worst enemies. At issue are the dangers in the structures and movements of images, values, and ways of knowing that are most intimately a part of our lives. The ethical and political dimensions we live by are called into question by virtue of their belonging to something excessive to their own identities. When this excess is ignored, we will be inclined to eliminate or dominate those values and political structures that are significantly different from our own. In this encounter with excess, Scott engages the thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Levinas on questions of responsibility, transcendence, tragedy, and self-fragmentation.
- A way of thinking emerges that makes evident the advantages of the nonethical and the nonpolitical for ethical and political life.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Continental thought
- Uniform Title
- Studies in Continental thought
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-211) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Crossing the Ethical by "the" Nonethical -- 1. Nonbelonging/Authenticity -- 2. Language in a Passing Sense of Transcendence -- 3. Ethics in a Passing Sense of Transcendence -- 4. A (Non- ) Passing Sense of Tragedy -- 5. Thinking Noninterpretively -- 6. The Ascetic Ideal: Nietzsche contra Heidegger -- 7. Transition: "What Is Paris Doing to Us?" -- 8. Self-Fragmentation: The Danger to Ethics -- 9. "Not to Be Trapped by Abuse ... ": Genealogy and a Child's Pain -- 10. Responsibility and Danger -- 11. A People's Witness beyond Politics -- 12. Democratic Space -- 13. On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Politics for Life.
- ISBN
- 0253330734
- 9780253330734
- 0253210763
- 9780253210760
- 0585105774
- 9780585105772
- LCCN
- 95053713
- OCLC
- ocm34029920
- 34029920
- SCSB-2106359
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library