Ethics for a Broken World: Imagining Philosophy After Catastrophe - Couverture souple

Mulgan, Professor Of Moral And Political Philosophy Tim

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ISBN 10 : 077353945X ISBN 13 : 9780773539457

Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Mulgan Tim

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

A bold, creative, provocative, ingenious and important book that will be of tremendous interest to students and teachers of ethical, political and environmental philosophy. --Professor John Seery, Pomona College, California

An excellent and hugely innovative introduction to political philosophy. By asking readers to imagine what our political philosophy might look like to members of a broken future, the book challenges many assumptions about resources and future generations that are implicit yet central to much contemporary political philosophy. The book offers a truly unique perspective, and will be a great benefit to students and teachers. --Dr Jonathan Quong, University of Manchester

'This book would be ideal for someone with some knowledge of contemporary ethical theories who wishes to read a critical discussion of them. It also serves as a useful reminder to those working in moral philosophy of the dependency of the discipline on the assumptions working in the social and political context in which theories are formed. What is particularly impressive about this book is the engaging style in which it is written. It is accessible, entertaining, and even funny.' --Philosophy Now

'Mulgan offers a vivid way to bring out the con­tingency and context-dependence of our present way of thinking.' --The Cambridge Humanities Review

'A proclaimed break with the profound anthropocentrism of philosophy of the modern age... opens the thought of what philosophy and ethics might become if it were to create a genealogy of the future.' --Year 's Work in Critical Cultural Theory 2013

'Mulgan offers a vivid way to bring out the con­tingency and context-dependence of our present way of thinking.' --The Cambridge Humanities Review

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone's basic needs and where a chaotic climate makes life precarious. Then imagine looking back into the past, back to our own time and assessing the ethics of the early twenty-first century. "Ethics for a Broken World" imagines how the future might judge us and how living in a time of global environmental degradation might utterly reshape the politics and ethics of the future. This book is presented as a series of history of philosophy lectures given in the future, studying the classic texts from a past age of affluence, our own time. The central ethical questions of our time are shown to look very different from the perspective of a ruined world. The aim of "Ethics for a Broken" World is to look at our present with the benefit of hindsight - to reimagine contemporary philosophy in an historical context - and to highlight the contingency of our own moral and political ideals.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 077353945X
• ISBN 13: 9780773539457
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256