Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics

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John Wiley & Sons, Aug 26, 2013 - Philosophy - 280 pages
Focusing on contemporary debates in moral and political theory, Situating the Self argues that a non-relative ethics, binding on us in virtue of out humanity, is still a philosophically viable project. This intersting new book should be read by all those concerned with the problems of critical theory, the analysis of modernity, and contemporary ethics, as well as students and professionals in philosophy, sociology and political science.
 

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Acknowledgments
In the Shadow of Aristotle and Hegel
Autonomy Modernity and Community
Models of Public Space
Judgment and the Moral Foundations of Politics in Hannah Arendts
Autonomy Feminism and Postmodernism
Index
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Seyla Benhabib has authored Critique, Norm, and Utopia, and is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. She is author of

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