Response Ethics (eBook)

Kelly Oliver (Autor)

Alison Suen (Herausgeber)

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2018
270 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-865-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Ideal for students in philosophy, animal studies and gender studies, this volume explores an important question: what grounds our ethical responsibility? It covers a range of topics including maternal bodies, animal rights, capital punishment, depression and trauma, demonstrating the evolution of Kelly Oliver's seminal work in response ethics.

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What does it mean to be a responsible subject in a world of pervasive violence? How should we be responsible witnesses in the face of gross injustice? Indeed, how should we respond to atrocities that often leave us speechless and powerless? In this seminal volume, Kelly Oliver articulates a "e;response ethics"e; as an alternative to mainstream moral frameworks such as utilitarianism and Kantianism. Oliver's response ethics is grounded in an innovative understanding of subjectivity. Insofar as one's subjectivity is informed by the social, and our sense of self is constituted by our ability to respond to our environment, reconceptualizing subjectivity transforms our ethical responsibility to others. Oliver's engagement in various debates in applied ethics, ranging from our ecological commitments to the death penalty, from sexual assaults on campus to reproductive technology, shows the relevance of response ethics in contemporary society. In the age of pervasive war, assaults, murder, and prejudice, Response Ethics offers timely contributions to the field of ethics.

Autor

lt;span>Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of thirteen scholarly books, ten anthologies, and over 100 articles, including work on campus rape, reproductive technologies, women and the media, film noir, and Alfred Hitchcock. Her work has been translated into seven languages, and she has been published in The New York Times.

Alison Suen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Iona College, USA. She is the author of The Speaking Animal (2015).

Inhalt

Editor’s introduction / Author’s introduction / Part I: Interrelational Subjects and Social Sublimation / 1. The Gestation of the Other in Phenomenology / 2. The Look of Love and Ecological Subjectivity / 3. Social Melancholy, Shame and Sublimation / Part II: Responsible Subjects and Witnessing / 4. Witnessing Subjectivity and Testimony / 5. Witnessing, Recognition, and Response Ethics / 6. Between Ethics and Politics / Part III: Response Ethics and the Non-humans / 7. Animal Ethics: Toward an Ethics of Responsiveness / 8. Service Dogs: Between Animal Studies and Disability Studies / 9. Earth Ethics and Creaturely Cohabitation / Part IV: Witnessing in the Age of Spectacle / 10. Death as a Penalty and Instant Death / 11. Rape as Spectator Sport and Creepshot Entertainment / 12. The Spectacle of War / Interview with Kelly Oliver / Bibliography / Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.10.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Schlagworte: Animal ethics • Animal Philosophy • Applied Ethics • Bioethics • Continental Philosophy • Disability Studies • Environmental Ethics • ethics • Feminist philosophy • Gender Studies • Moral Philosophy • Phenomenology
• ISBN-10: 1-78660-865-0 / 1786608650
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78660-865-9 / 9781786608659