The Moral Theory of Poststructuralism - Couverture souple

May, Todd

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0271014695 ISBN 13 : 9780271014692

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Both Anglo-American and Continental thinkers have long denied that there can be a coherent moral defense of the poststructuralist politics of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard. For many Anglo-American thinkers, as well as for Critical Theorists such as Habermas, poststructuralism is not coherent enough to defend morally. Alternatively, for Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, and their followers, the practice of moral theorizing is passé at best and more likely insidious.

Todd May argues both that a moral defense of poststructuralism is necessary and that it is possible. First, he develops a metaethical view of moral theorizing that treats it as a social practice rather than a transcendentally derived guarantee for right action. He then articulates and defends antirepresentationalism, a principle central to poststructuralism. Finally, May offers a version of consequentialism that is consonant both with the principle of antirepresentationalism and with other poststructuralist commitments. In conclusion, he distinguishes morality from an aesthetics of living and shows the role the latter plays for those who embrace antirepresentationalism.

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À propos de l?auteur

Todd May is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University. He is the author of two previous books published by Penn State Press, The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism (1994) and Between Genealogy and Epistemology: Psychology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Thought of Michel Foucault (1993).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0271014695
• ISBN 13: 9780271014692
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 164
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