The Ethics of Subjectivity: Perspectives since the Dawn of Modernity

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Modernity, Ethics and the Subject....Pages 1-10
From Chaos to Order: The Role of the Self in Hobbes’ Moralism....Pages 11-23
Kant’s Contribution to Moral Evolution: From Modernism to Postmodernism....Pages 24-42
The Moral Agent: Bradley’s Critique of Hegel’s Evolutionary Ethics....Pages 43-53
Reflections on Kierkegaad’s Inwardness and Ethics of Subjectivity....Pages 54-70
Nietzsche’s Sovereign Individual and the Ethics of Subjectivity....Pages 71-102
A Case for Foucault’s Reversal of Opinion on the Autonomy of the Subject....Pages 103-125
The Ethics and Politics of Self-Creation in Foucault....Pages 126-143
Jacques Derrida on the Ethics of Hospitality....Pages 144-156
Karl Popper’s Contribution to Postmodernist Ethics....Pages 157-188
Open Standard, Open Judgment and Value Revision in Karl Popper’s Moral Philosophy....Pages 189-200
Navigating Feyerabend’s Moral Philosophy from Boundaries Without Values to Values Without Boundaries....Pages 201-213
Outlines of Jacques Lacan’s Ethics of Subjectivity....Pages 214-239
Ayn Rand’s Ethics of Rational Selfishness....Pages 240-254
Habermas’ Ethics of Intersubjectivity....Pages 255-279
Levinas Meets the Postcolonial: Rethinking the Ethics of the Other....Pages 280-295
Rorty’s Contribution to Postmodern Ethics....Pages 296-309
Human Conversation and the Evolution of Ethics in Kitcher’s Pragmatic Naturalism....Pages 310-325
Back Matter....Pages 326-344