0415180341 - R. Kearney - Questioning Ethics~ Debates in Contemporary Continental Philosophy - Routledge.pdf

QUESTIONING ETHICS


Questioning Ethics: Contemporary debates in philosophy is a major
discussion by some of the world’s leading thinkers of crucial ethical issues
confronting us today.
Original contributions by Habermas, Derrida, MacIntyre, Ricoeur,
Kristeva and other major philosophers anized around five sections:
hermeneutics, deconstruction, critical theory, psychoanalysis and applications
of ethics. Topics considered in these sections include the nature of politics,
women’s rights, lying, repressed memory, historical debt and forgiveness,
the self and responsibility, revisionism, bioethics and multiculturalism. Each
section engages with the critical implications of these problems for
philosophy.
A key feature of this book is an interview with Jacques Derrida, which
makes available the most accessible insight into his thinking for many
years. There is also an interview with Paul Ricoeur, which offers a very
useful introduction to some of the key themes in his work.
Contributors: Hermeneutics: Paul Ricoeur; Richard Kearney; Jeffrey Barash;
Jean Greisch. Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida; John ; David
Wood; Simon Glendinning. Critical Theory: Jürgen Habermas; Karl-Otto
Apel; Thomas McCarthy; David . Psychoanalysis: William
; Julia Kristeva; Simon Critchley. Applications: Alasdair
MacIntyre; Maeve Cooke; Peter Kemp.
The Editors: Richard Kearney is Professor of Philosophy at University
College Dublin and Boston College. He is the author of The Wake of
Imagination, Poetics of Imagining, Postnationalist Ireland, editor of
Continental Philosophy in the Twentieth Century and co-editor of The
Continental Philosophy Reader, all published by Routledge. Mark Dooley
is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College Dublin, and at the National
University of Ireland, Maynooth. He has published numerous articles in
the area of continental philosophy, and has a book ing on
Kierkegaard, Derrida, and postmodern ethics.