Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought - Couverture rigide

Houle, Karen L. F.

 
9780739136713: Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought
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ISBN 10 : 0739136712 ISBN 13 : 9780739136713
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2013

Synopsis

Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought draws from feminist theory, post-structuralist theory, and complexity theory to develop a new set of ethical concepts for broaching the thinking challenges that attend the experience of unwanted pregnancy. Author Karen Houle does not only argue for these concepts; she enacts a method for working with them, a method that brackets the tendency to take positions and to think that position-taking is what ethical analysis involves. This book thus provides concrete evidence of a theoretically-grounded, compassionate way that people in all walks of life, academic or otherwise, could come to a better understanding of, and more complex relationship to, difficult ethical issues. On the one hand, this is a meta-ethical book about how people can conceive and communicate moral ideas in ways that are more constructive than position-taking; on the other hand, it is also a book about abortion. It testifies from a first-person female perspective about the life-long complexity that attends fertility, sexuality and reproduction. But it does not do so in order to ratify abortion as a woman's issue or a private matter or as feminist work. Rather, its aim is to excavate the ethical richness of the situation of unwanted pregnancy showing that it connects to everyone, affects everyone, and thus gives everyone something unique and new to think.

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À propos de l?auteur

Karen Houle is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph. She co-edited, with Jim Vernon, Hegel and Deleuze: Together Again for the First Time. She is also the author of two books of poetry: Ballast and During.

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Éditeur
Lexington Books
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0739136712
ISBN 13 
9780739136713
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9780739136720: Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought

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ISBN 10 :  0739136720 ISBN 13 :  9780739136720
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2015
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