Research Catalog

Title

Response ethics / Kelly Oliver ; edited by Alison Suen.

Author

Oliver, Kelly, 1958-

Publication

London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2019]

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Details

Description

xxxvi, 234 pages; 24 cm

Summary

What does it mean to be a responsible subject in a world of pervasive violence? How should we be responsible witnesses in the face of gross injustice? Indeed, how should we respond to atrocities that often leave us speechless and powerless? In this seminal volume, Kelly Oliver articulates a "response ethics" as an alternative to mainstream moral frameworks such as utilitarianism and Kantianism. Oliver's response ethics is grounded in an innovative understanding of subjectivity. Insofar as one's subjectivity is informed by the social, and our sense of self is constituted by our ability to respond to our environment, reconceptualizing subjectivity transforms our ethical responsibility to others. Oliver's engagement in various debates in applied ethics, ranging from our ecological commitments to the death penalty, from sexual assaults on campus to reproductive technology, shows the relevance of response ethics in contemporary society. In the age of pervasive war, assaults, murder, and prejudice, Response Ethics offers timely contributions to the field of ethics. -- Provided by publisher.

Subjects

• Ethik
• Verantwortung
• Social ethics
• Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung

Note

• Editor's introduction -- Author's introduction -- Interrelational subjects and social sublimation -- The gestation of the other in phenomenology -- The look of love and ecological subjectivity -- Social melancholy, shame and sublimation -- Responsible subjects and witnessing -- Witnessing subjectivity and testimony -- Witnessing, recognition, and response ethics -- Between ethics and politics -- Response ethics and the nonhumans -- Animal ethics: toward an ethics of responsiveness -- Service dogs: between animal studies and disability studies -- Earth ethics and creaturely cohabitation -- Witnessing in the age of spectacle -- Death as a penalty and instant death -- Rape as spectator sport and creepshot entertainment -- The spectacle of war -- Bibliography -- Index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Interrelational Subjects and Social Sublimation -- 1. The Gestation of the Other in Phenomenology -- 2. Vision beyond Domination -- 3. Social Melancholy, Shame, and Sublimation -- pt. II Responsible Subjects and Witnessing -- 4. Witnessing Subjectivity and Testimony -- 5. Witnessing, Recognition, and Response Ethics -- 6. Rethinking Response Ethics: Between Ethics and Politics -- pt. III Response Ethics and the Non-Humans -- 7. Animal Ethics: Toward an Ethics of Responsiveness -- 8. Service Dogs: Between Animal Studies and Disability Studies -- 9. Earth Ethics and Creaturely Cohabitation -- pt. IV Witnessing in the Age of Spectacle -- 10. Capital Punishment and the Fantasy of "Good Death" -- 11. Rape as Spectator Sport and Creepshot Entertainment: Social Media and the Valorization of Lack of Consent -- 12. Perpetual War, Pornographic Looking, and Visual Technologies.

ISBN

• 9781786608635
• 1786608634
• 9781786608642
• 1786608642
• 9781786608659 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2018031031
• 99980724604

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries