{"product_id":"shaping-a-modern-ethics-the-humanist-legacy-from-nietzsche-to-feminism-paperback","title":"Shaping a Modern Ethics: The Humanist Legacy from Nietzsche to Feminism - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Bennett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIs there any such thing as a single ethical system to which all human beings could conceivably subscribe?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The short answer is no; and most people, being tolerant, would probably agree with this answer. Yet most people, precisely in being tolerant, also subscribe to an idea of \"human rights\" which presupposes just such a universal ethics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis basic question of ethics is similarly treacherous when approached on a higher technical level. Specialists have long recognized that Kant's categorical imperative is neither theoretically nor practically tenable. But efforts to revive and repair the Kantian project-including especially the monumental work of J?rgen Habermas-have all themselves been theoretically questionable, while developing a complexity that makes them impractical. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMust we then simply do without ethics in the sense of a universal ethical method? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy way of a close study of literary and philosophical texts, from Freud to Machiavelli, Benjamin Bennett shows why the failure of a universal or propositional ethics is indeed unavoidable. He uncovers a modern non-propositional ethics that cannot be grasped in a single theoretical move but can only be approached as a collection of instances of a modern ethical \"we\", three key examples of which Bennett explores in this book: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- The \"we\" of irony, whose speakers share a strictly preter-verbal knowledge which is concealed in their actual utterances \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- The insistent exclusive \"we\" of a group that has neither its own physical locality nor even a clear intellectual identity, comparable to the \"we\" of Jews in the diaspora \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- The \"we\" of feminism, a separate \"we\" from that embracing people who happen to have been born women.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Bennett \u003c\/b\u003eis\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eKenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature, and Interim Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages \u0026amp; Literatures at the University of Virginia, USA. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 26, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45852617834693,"sku":"9781350262317","price":80.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/o2OZ4w4i7K9781350262317.webp?v=1771454817","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/shaping-a-modern-ethics-the-humanist-legacy-from-nietzsche-to-feminism-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}