TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,Charles E.
TI  - On the advantages and disadvantages of ethics and politics
T2  - Studies in Continental thought
SN  - 0585105774
AV  - BJ1031 .S368 1996eb
U1  - 170 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy, Modern
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Morale
KW  - Id�ees politiques
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - 19e si�ecle
KW  - 20e si�ecle
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - fast
KW  - Ethik
KW  - gnd
KW  - Politische Ethik
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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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