Selfhood and Sacrifice: RenA© Girard and Charles Taylor on the Crisis of Modernity, Andrew O`Shea

Автор: Danielle Sands
Название: Animal Writing: Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy
ISBN: 1474439039 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474439039
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction and philosophy alongside each other to propose a method of thinking of and with animals that draws on a bestiary of affects. She challenges the claim that empathy should be primary mode of engagement with nonhuman life. Instead, she looks at the stories that we tell, and are told, by insects – beings at the edges of animal life. The indifference, even disgust, that these creatures evoke in us forms the basis for a new ethics not limited by empathy. Along the way she encounters fiction writers Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Roger Caillois.

Автор: Parasain Mohan
Название: On Moral Law and Quest for Selfhood
ISBN: 1138686689 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138686687
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book offers an original intersection of concepts from Immanuel Kant’s moral command ethics and Soren Kierkegaard’s existential ethics. The Kantian formulation of moral law is based on theoretical ground while Kierkegaardian ethics of the quest for selfhood views it as the very act of living. The present work provides an account of both these perspectives and questions whether these approaches to morality are mutually exclusionary. Using Slavoj Zizek’s ‘parallax view’ in the realm of morality, it argues that moral philosophy must engage with a constant critique of ‘difference’ around which the transformation of our various perspectives to morality revolves. This work appeals for furtherance of the conversation model and participation of perspectives to transcend ‘positional confinement’. It advocates the traversing of the ethical parallax to allow for intellectual openness and an empathetic perception of the ‘other’. Engaging and well-researched, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of ethics, political philosophy and continental philosophy.