The Continental Ethics Reader

The Continental Ethics Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of classic writings on ethics and moral philosophy from the major figures in Continental thought. The carefully selected readings are divided into five sections Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Existentialism, Critical Theory, Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis and Feminism. All of the authors and their writings are introduced and place in philoosphical context by the editors. The Continental Ethics Reader is an ideal point of entry to the most pressing issues and most important thinkers of the Continental tradition, and provides a thorough and much needed introduction to the field. G.W.F Hegel, Edmund Husserl, Henri Bergson, Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Emmauel Levinas, Paul Ricoeur, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Buber, Karl Jaspers, Jean-P

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1. Phenomenology and Hermeneutics Introduction 1. Lordship and Bondage, Phenomenology of Spirit W. F. Hegel 2. Extracts from Fifth Meditation, Cartesian Meditations: Edmund Husserl 3. Extracts from Two Sources of Morality and Religion: Henri Bergson 4. Extracts from The Sphere of Values, Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values Max Scheler 5. Extracts from Being and Time, and Letter on Humanism: Martin Heidegger 6. On the Possibility of a Philosophical Ehtics: Hans-Georg Gadamer 7. Philosophy and the Idea of Infinity: Emmanuel Levinas 7. Philosophy and the Idea of Infinity: Emmanuel Levinas 8. The Problem of the Foundation of Moral Philosophy: Paul Ricoeur Part 2. Existentialism Introduction 9. The Teleological Suspension of the Ethical, Fear and Trembling: Soren Kierkegaard 10. First Essay: Good and Evil, Good and Bad, On the Genealogy of Morals: Friedrich Nietzsche 11. Extracts from I and Thou: Martin Buber 12. The Moral Claim: Karl Jaspers 13. Existentialism in a Humanism: Jean-Paul Sartre 14. The Experience of Others: Maurice Merleau-Ponty 15. Extracts from The Ethics of Amiguity: Simone De Beauvoir Part 3. Critical Theory Introduction 16. Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin 17. Enlightenment and Morality, Dialectic Enlightenment: Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer 18. Extracts from One-Dimensional Man: Herbert Marcuse 19. On the Pragmatic, the Ethical, and the Moral Employments of Practical Reason: Jurgen Habermas Part 4. Postmodernism and Poststructuralism Introduction 20. The Notion of Expenditure: Georges Bataille 21. Substitution: Emmanuel Levinas 22. Extracts from The Writing of the Disaster: Maurice Blanchot 23. Extracts from The Differend: Jean-Francois Lyotard 24. On the Genealogy of Ethics: Michel Foucault 25. Passions: An Oblique Offering: Jacques Derrida 26. Private Irony and Liberal Hope: Richard Rorty 27. Extracts from The Coming Community: Giorgio Agamben Part 5. Psychoanalysis and Feminism Introduction 28. Extracts from Civilization and Its Discontents: Sigmund Freud 29. On the Moral Law, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis Jacques Lacan 30. Extracts from Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 31. Sexual Difference: Luce Irigaray 32. The Laugh of the Medusa: Helene Cixous 33. Women's Time: Julia Kristeva Select bibliography of major works in English Index

About the Author :
Matthew Calarco is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sweet Briar College. Peter Atterton teaches philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.

Review :
'A superb volume and certainly one that I - and many other professors - would find immensely helpful.' - Richard Kearney, Boston College 'There is a genuine need for a volume of this kind and I believe it will be a valuable resource...' - Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis 'An impressive array of texts that collectively reflect the broad sweep of continental approaches to ethical issues.' - Andrew Cutrofello, Loyola University, Chicago