Against Ethics: Contributions to a Poetics of Obligation with Constant Reference to Deconstruction

摘要: ' ...one of the most important works on philosophical ethics written in recent years...Caputo speaks with a passion and concern that are rare academic philosophy. His profound sense humor deepens viewpoints he develops' - Mark C. Taylor. '...a counterethics whose multiple voices will be heard long after trivializing arguments many analytic ethicists have vanished arcane formulations postmoderns jettisoned...The either/or this dialogue is shown as topos postmodern ethics' Edith Wyschogrod. In "Against Ethics", John D. Caputo undertakes passionate, poetic, satiric search for basis an situation. Restaging Fear Trembling, defends notion obligation without ethics, responsibility support ethical foundations. Retelling story Abraham Isaac, strikes pose postmodern-day Johannes de Silentio, accompanied by communications from such startling figures Johanna Felix Sineculpa, Magdalena la Cruz. thought Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Levinas, Derrida, Lyotard, forges challenging, original account what possible not continentalist today.