MORAL THEORY

I use the term Moral Theory to refer to approaches that emphasise the socio-historical context and rhetoric of attempts to evaluate the nature of right and wrong in human conduct.

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Philosophers / Theorists:

• Early Modern:

  • Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)

  • Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)

• Nineteenth Century:

  • Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768 - 1834) (see also Hermeneutics)

  • G. W. F. Hegel (1770 - 1831)

  • Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

• Twentieth Century:

  • Continental:

    • (Post-)Structuralisms:

      • Deconstruction:

        • Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2005)

        • Simon Critchley (1960 -)

      • Foucauldian Theory:

        • Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)

    • Marxism:

      • Jurgen Habermas (1929 - )

    • Phenomenology / Existentialism / Hermeneutics:
      • Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
      • Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
      • Emmanuel Levinas (1906 - 1995)

      • Charles Taylor (1931 - )

  • Thomism:

    • Alasdair MacIntyre (1929 - )

Lawrence Kohlberg (1927 - )

ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2007:

• Moralities at the Turn of Centuries and Millenniums, Institute of Philosophy and Ethics, Presov University, Slovakia, September 18-20

2006:

2005:

2004:

2003:

2002:

2001:

2000:

Annual:

COURSES

• Adam Mickiewicz University: Ethical Criticism:  (Domanska)

• University of London, King's College: The Subject of Ethics in Contemporary French Thought (Ffrench, et al.)

• University of Massachussetts, Lowell: Continental Ethics (McAffee)
• Southern Methodist University: An Archeology of Values: the Self and Ethics from Kant to Baudrillard (Foster)

JOURNALS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Calarco, Matthew, and Peter Atterton, eds.  The Continental Ethics Reader.  London: Routledge, 2003.
  • Copjec, Joan, ed.  Radical Evil.  London: Verso, 1993.
  • Kearney, Richard, and Mark Dooley, eds.  Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1999.
  • Larrimore, Mark, ed.  The Problem of Evil: a Reader.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
  • Pia Lara, Maria, ed.  Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives.  Berkeley: U of California P, 2001.
  • Solomon, Robert, ed.  Morality and the Good Life: an Introduction to Ethics through Classical Sources. 
  • Wyschogrod, Edith, and Gerald P. Kenny, eds.  The Ethical.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Badiou, Alain.  Ethics: an Essay on the Understanding of Evil.  London: Verso, 2002.

  • Bauman, Zygmunt.  Postmodern Ethics.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.

  • Bernstein, Richard J.  Radical Evil: a Philosophical Interrogation.  Cambridge: Polity, 2002.

  • Caputo, John D.  Against Ethics: Contributions to a Poetics of Obligation with Constant Reference to Deconstruction.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993.

  • Caws, Peter.  Ethics from Experience.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1996.

  • Furrow, Dwight.  Against Theory: Continental and Analytic Challenges in Moral Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1996.

  • Geuss, Raymond.  Outside Ethics.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005.

  • Holland, Nancy J.  The Madwoman's Reason: the Concept of the Appropriate in Ethical Thought.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1998.

  • Kohlberg, Lawrence.  

  • Lowe, Brian M.  Emerging Moral Vocabularies: the Creation and Establishment of New Forms of Moral and Ethical Meanings.  Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2006.

  • Margalit, Avishai.  The Ethics of Memory.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2002.

  • May, Todd.  The Moral Theory of Poststructuralism.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1995.

  • Schneewind, Jerome B.  The Invention of Autonomy: a History of Modern Moral Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1997.

  • Scott, Charles E.  The Question of Ethics: Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990.

  • Smith, P. Christopher.  Hermeneutics and Human Finitude: Toward a Theory of Ethical Understanding.  New York: Fordham UP, 1991.

  • Smith, Nicholas H.  Strong Hermeneutics.  London: Routledge, 1997.

  • Thiele, Leslie Paul.  The Heart of Judgment: Practical Wisdom, Neuroscience, and Narrative.  : CUP, 2006.

  • Toulmin, Stephen.  The Place of Reason in Ethics.  Cambridge: CUP, 1950.

  • Weeks, Jeffrey.  "Invented Moralities."  History Workshop Journal 32 (1991): 151 - 66. 

    • Rev. Version in Discourses of Sexuality.  Ed. Domna C. Stanton.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1992.  389-411.

  • Weston, Mike.  Philosophy, Literature, and the Human Good.  London: Routledge, 2001.

  • Wyschogrod, Edith.  Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.

  • Wyschogrod, Edith.  An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology, and the Nameless Others. 

On-Line:

• Hinckfuss, Ian: The Moral Society: its Structure and Effects [originally entitled To Hell with Morality]

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Adamson, Jane, Richard Freadman, and David Parker, eds.  Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.

  • Davis, Todd F., and Kenneth Womack.  Mapping the Ethical Turn: a Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory.  Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2001.

  • Garber, Marjorie, Beatrice Hanssen, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, eds.  The Turn to Ethics.  New York: Routledge, 2000.

  • Glowacka, Dorotea, and Stephen Boos, eds.  Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing the Boundaries.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2002.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Voloshin, Beverly R.  "The Ethical Turn in French Postmodern Philosophy."  Pacific Coast Philology (1998): .

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