Morality and Modernity

Name: Morality and Modernity
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ISBN: 9780415036016

ISBN-10: 0415036011

ISBN-13: 9780415036016

Edition: 1991

Authors: Ross Poole

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Ross Poole displays the social content of the various conceptions of morality at work in contemporary society, and casts a strikingly fresh light on such fundamental problems as the place of reason in ethics, moral objectivity and the distinction between duty and virtue. The book provides a critical account of the moral theories of a number of major philosophers, including Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Habermas, Rawls, Gewirth and MacIntyre. It also presents a systematic critique of three of the most significant responses to modernity: liberalism, nationalism and nihilism. It takes seriously the suggestion that men and women are subject to different conceptions of morality, and places the issue…

Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/27/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

JOANNE SHARPE is senior lecturer in geography at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests are in the role of gender relations in development. She has worked extensively in southern Egypt, as well as in Tanzania and South Africa.Poole is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University.



Preface


Introduction



The Market and Its Moralities: Utilitarianism, Kantianism and the Loss of Virtue



Capitalism: The Power of Reason



The Private Sphere: Virtue Regained?



Liberalism and Nihilism



The Illusory Community: The Nation



Modernity and Madness: Nietzsche's Apotheosis



Towards Morality


Notes


Bibliographical Essay


Index