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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453044703321

Titolo

Existentialist thinkers and ethics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Christine Daigle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-283-52941-6

9786613841865

0-7735-8575-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DaigleChristine <1967->

Disciplina

171/.2

Soggetti

Existential ethics

Existentialism

Existentialism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The problem of ethics for existentialism / Christine Daigle -- The exception as reinforcement of the ethical norm : the figures of Abraham and Job in Kierkegaard's ethical thought / Dominic Desroaches -- A Nietzschean solution to ethical relativism / David W. Goldberg -- The politics of authentic existence / Todd Lavin -- Yes, she is an ethicist : Arendt, responsibility, and existentialism / Stephen Schulman -- Sartre on atheism, freedom, and morality in The humanism of existentialism / Glenn Braddock -- An ethics of measure : Camus and Rousseau / Philip Knee -- The ambiguous ethics of Beauvoir / Christine Daigle -- Merleau-Ponty's embodied ethics : rethinking traditional ethics / Kym Maclaren -- Conclusion: From the ethical to the political / Christine Daigle.

Sommario/riassunto

An inquiry into the possibility and viability of existentialist ethics. Through examination of the thought of eight key figures in existentialism, this work tackles the difficulties raised by an existentialist ethics and shows how each thinker successfully elaborated an ethics that provides a viable alternative to traditional ethical views.