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On the advantages and disadvantages of ethics and politics / Charles E. Scott.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Continental thoughtPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585105774
  • 9780585105772
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: On the advantages and disadvantages of ethics and politics.DDC classification:
  • 170 20
LOC classification:
  • BJ1031 .S368 1996eb
Other classification:
  • 5,1
  • CC 7200
  • CC 7800
Online resources:
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.
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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.Summary: A way of thinking emerges that makes evident the advantages of the nonethical and the nonpolitical for ethical and political life.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index.

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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.

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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.

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