First published in 1998. The book shows that discourse and community are central issues for communitarianism, feminism, postmodernism and liberation ethics, and reveals how plurality and multiculturalism have become a matter for critical philosophy.
First published in 1998. The book shows that discourse and community are central issues for communitarianism, feminism, postmodernism and liberation ethics, and reveals how plurality and multiculturalism have become a matter for critical philosophy.
Contents: Communities, Contexts and Challenges to Discourse Theory: The fact of pluralism and the multicultural quest for community; Which person? Whose community? On the controversy between liberalism and communitarianism. Plurality and Cognitivism in Light of Anglo American Pragmatism: Pluralism and universalism in discourse ethics; Are moral concerns irreducible to ethical concerns? Habermas and the cognitive content of morality. The Postmodern Discourse on the Other in the French Context: Lyotard's conception of conflicting claims to validity and its insufficient Kantianism; The limits of solidarity. Discourse ethics, Levinas, and the moral point of view. The Concrete Other as Subject in Feminist Perspective: Toward a model of self-identity: Habermas and Kristeva; Subjectivity in process: Kristeva, discourse theory, and the trials of psychoanalysis. Liberation, Globalization and the Latin American Context: Discourse and liberation: the claims and contexts of two types of universalistic ethics; Modernity and postmodernity as challenges to discourse ethics. An ethics of planetary co-responsibility in an age of suspect foundationalism and rhetorical relativism; Index.
Contents: Communities, Contexts and Challenges to Discourse Theory: The fact of pluralism and the multicultural quest for community; Which person? Whose community? On the controversy between liberalism and communitarianism. Plurality and Cognitivism in Light of Anglo American Pragmatism: Pluralism and universalism in discourse ethics; Are moral concerns irreducible to ethical concerns? Habermas and the cognitive content of morality. The Postmodern Discourse on the Other in the French Context: Lyotard's conception of conflicting claims to validity and its insufficient Kantianism; The limits of solidarity. Discourse ethics, Levinas, and the moral point of view. The Concrete Other as Subject in Feminist Perspective: Toward a model of self-identity: Habermas and Kristeva; Subjectivity in process: Kristeva, discourse theory, and the trials of psychoanalysis. Liberation, Globalization and the Latin American Context: Discourse and liberation: the claims and contexts of two types of universalistic ethics; Modernity and postmodernity as challenges to discourse ethics. An ethics of planetary co-responsibility in an age of suspect foundationalism and rhetorical relativism; Index.
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