{"product_id":"shaping-a-modern-ethics-benjamin-bennett-9781350262317","title":"Shaping a Modern Ethics: The Humanist Legacy from Nietzsche to Feminism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIs there any such thing as a single ethical system to which all human beings could conceivably subscribe?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The short answer is no; and most people, being tolerant, would probably agree with this answer. Yet most people, precisely in being tolerant, also subscribe to an idea of \"human rights\" which presupposes just such a universal ethics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis basic question of ethics is similarly treacherous when approached on a higher technical level. Specialists have long recognized that Kant's categorical imperative is neither theoretically nor practically tenable. But efforts to revive and repair the Kantian project-including especially the monumental work of J?rgen Habermas-have all themselves been theoretically questionable, while developing a complexity that makes them impractical. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMust we then simply do without ethics in the sense of a universal ethical method? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy way of a close study of literary and philosophical texts, from Freud to Machiavelli, Benjamin Bennett shows why the failure of a universal or propositional ethics is indeed unavoidable. He uncovers a modern non-propositional ethics that cannot be grasped in a single theoretical move but can only be approached as a collection of instances of a modern ethical \"we\", three key examples of which Bennett explores in this book: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- The \"we\" of irony, whose speakers share a strictly preter-verbal knowledge which is concealed in their actual utterances \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- The insistent exclusive \"we\" of a group that has neither its own physical locality nor even a clear intellectual identity, comparable to the \"we\" of Jews in the diaspora \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- The \"we\" of feminism, a separate \"we\" from that embracing people who happen to have been born women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Bennett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350262315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350262317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.45d","brand":"Benjamin Bennett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46795613110527,"sku":"9781350262317","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f26bb363-42de-4567-a9ca-c8e5a7543965.jpg?v=1744948142","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shaping-a-modern-ethics-benjamin-bennett-9781350262317","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}