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- catalog abstract ""Ethical questions dominate today's political and academic agendas. While government think-tanks ponder the dilemmas of bio-ethics, medical ethics and professional ethics, respect for human rights and reverence for the Other have become matters of virtually instinctive consensus." "Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful and unusual voices in contemporary French philosophy, explodes the facile assumptions behind this recent ethical turn. He shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and demonstrates that an ethics conceived in terms of negative human rights or tolerance of difference cannot sustain decisive and precisely situated interventions any more than they can underpin a coherent concept of evil. Our consensual ethical norms amount to nothing more than a jumbled confusion of legalistic formalism, scandalised opinion, and theological mystification."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Éthique. English".
- catalog contributor b12226163.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Ethical questions dominate today's political and academic agendas. While government think-tanks ponder the dilemmas of bio-ethics, medical ethics and professional ethics, respect for human rights and reverence for the Other have become matters of virtually instinctive consensus." "Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful and unusual voices in contemporary French philosophy, explodes the facile assumptions behind this recent ethical turn. He shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and demonstrates that an ethics conceived in terms of negative human rights or tolerance of difference cannot sustain decisive and precisely situated interventions any more than they can underpin a coherent concept of evil. Our consensual ethical norms amount to nothing more than a jumbled confusion of legalistic formalism, scandalised opinion, and theological mystification."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Does man exist? -- Does the other exist? -- Ethics as a figure of nihilism -- The ethic of truths --The problem of evil.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-162) and index.".
- catalog extent "lviii, 166 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Ethics.".
- catalog identifier "1859842976".
- catalog isFormatOf "Ethics.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Verso,".
- catalog relation "Ethics.".
- catalog subject "170 21".
- catalog subject "BJ1402 .B3313 2001".
- catalog subject "Ethics.".
- catalog subject "Good and evil.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Does man exist? -- Does the other exist? -- Ethics as a figure of nihilism -- The ethic of truths --The problem of evil.".
- catalog title "Ethics : an essay on the understanding of evil / Alain Badiou ; translated and introduced by Peter Hallward.".
- catalog title "Éthique. English".
- catalog type "text".