Reforming the Moral Subject
Author | : Tracie Matysik |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008 |
ISBN-10 | : 0801447127 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780801447129 |
Rating | : 4/5 (129 Downloads) |
Download or read book Reforming the Moral Subject written by Tracie Matysik and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : critical ethics, or the subject of reform -- An ethics of Gesellschaft -- The "new ethic" : a particularist challenge -- Conflicted sexualities and conflicted secularisms -- Global influences, local responses -- Moral laws and impossible laws : the "female homosexual" and the Criminal Code -- Social matters : social democracy and the ethics of materialism -- Losses and unlikely legacies : psychoanalysis and femininity -- Afterword : moral citizenship, or ethics beyond the law.