Situating the Self is a decisive intervention into debates concerning modernity, postmodernity, ehtics, and the self. It will be of interest to all concerned with critical theory or contemporary ethics.
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This review is from: Situating the Self: Gender, Community, and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (Paperback)
"Situating the Self" is one of the best books in contemporary political theory. Benhabib starts the book by arguing that as the 20th century draws to an end, it is clear that we are also at the end of an intellectual epoch. Modernity, with its rights based liberalism, has to be rewritten.
Seyla Benhabib's work is unique because she is so well versed in both Anglo-American and Continental philosophy. She is one of the few writers whose work can address issues such as the liberal-communitarian debate while at the same time integrating the work of people like Foucault and Derrida into the debate. Too much contemporary work comes from within too narrow a perspective, and ignores other important streams of thought which are relevant to the issues debated. Not so Benhabib - she is so well fluent in so many approaches, so no relevant perspective remains untouched.
Her work is also important in that it does not attempt to remain "ideal theory", but rather looks at what's at the stake at the various theoretical debates.
This is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory, liberalism, feminist theory, communitarian theory, and the implications of postmodernism for social theory.
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Hegel had criticized the Kantian formula, "Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law," on numerous occasions as being inconsistent at best and empty at worst. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Hegel had criticized the Kantian formula, "Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law," on numerous occasions as being inconsistent at best and empty at worst. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Hannah Arendt, Carol Gilligan, John Rawls, Charles Taylor, Michael Walzer, Harvard University Press, Jurgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, Notre Dame, Cambridge University Press, Alasdair Maclntyre, University of Chicago Press, Lawrence Kohlberg, Max Weber, Praxis International, University of Minnesota Press, Gender Trouble, Judith Butler, Linda Nicholson, Michael Sandel, Social Research, Bruce Ackerman, Columbia University Press, Linda Gordon New!
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- Philosophy of Right (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Georg W. F. Hegel on 11 pages
- Moral Development by Kohlberg on 8 pages
- The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory and History of Literature, Volume 10) by Jean-Francois Lyotard on 7 pages
- Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action: Moral Conciousness and Communicative Action (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Jürgen Habermas on 6 pages
- Between Past and Future (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Hannah Arendt on 6 pages
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- Self-Construction and the Formation of Human Values: Truth, Language, and Desire by Teodros Kiros on 6 pages
- Critical Confrontations: Literary Theories in Dialogue by Meili Steele on 4 pages
- The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global by Virginia Held in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought by William Schweiker on page 31, page 140, and page 207
- Theology after Ricoeur: New Directions in Hermeneutical Theology by Dan R. Stiver in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 212
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