Moral Theory of Poststructuralism

Name: Moral Theory of Poststructuralism
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ISBN: 9780271025858

ISBN-10: 0271025859

ISBN-13: 9780271025858

Edition: 1995

Authors: Todd May

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Both Anglo-American and Continental thinkers have long denied that there can be a coherent moral defense of the poststructuralist politics of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-Franois Lyotard. For many Anglo-American thinkers, as well as for Critical Theorists such as Habermas, poststructuralism is not coherent enough to defend morally. Alternatively, for Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, and their followers, the practice of moral theorizing is pass at best and more likely insidious.Todd May argues both that a moral defense of poststructuralism is necessary and that it is possible. First, he develops a metaethical view of moral theorizing that treats it as a social practice rather than a…

Book details

Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 9/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 164
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Moral Discourse



Moral Antirepresentationalism



A Multivalue Consequentialism



Consequentialism and Supererogation



From Morality to an Aesthetics of Living


Bibliography


Index