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The Ethics of Subjectivity

Perspectives since the Dawn of Modernity

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Editors:
  1. Elvis Imafidon

    1. Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Modernity, Ethics and the Subject

    • Elvis Imafidon
    Pages 1-10

  3. From Chaos to Order: The Role of the Self in Hobbes’ Moralism

    • Francis Offor
    Pages 11-23

  4. Kant’s Contribution to Moral Evolution: From Modernism to Postmodernism

    • Joseph Osei
    Pages 24-42

  5. The Moral Agent: Bradley’s Critique of Hegel’s Evolutionary Ethics

    • Anthony O. Echekwube
    Pages 43-53

  6. Reflections on Kierkegaad’s Inwardness and Ethics of Subjectivity

    • Blessing O. Agidigbi
    Pages 54-70

  7. Nietzsche’s Sovereign Individual and the Ethics of Subjectivity

    • Sharli Anne Paphitis
    Pages 71-102

  8. A Case for Foucault’s Reversal of Opinion on the Autonomy of the Subject

    • Bob Robinson
    Pages 103-125

  9. The Ethics and Politics of Self-Creation in Foucault

    • AB (Benda) Hofmeyr
    Pages 126-143

  10. Jacques Derrida on the Ethics of Hospitality

    • Gerasimos Kakoliris
    Pages 144-156

  11. Karl Popper’s Contribution to Postmodernist Ethics

    • Joseph Osei
    Pages 157-188

  12. Open Standard, Open Judgment and Value Revision in Karl Popper’s Moral Philosophy

    • Peter A. Ikhane
    Pages 189-200

  13. Navigating Feyerabend’s Moral Philosophy from Boundaries Without Values to Values Without Boundaries

    • Isaac E. Ukpokolo
    Pages 201-213

  14. Outlines of Jacques Lacan’s Ethics of Subjectivity

    • Gregory B. Sadler
    Pages 214-239

  15. Ayn Rand’s Ethics of Rational Selfishness

    • Precious O. Ighoroje
    Pages 240-254

  16. Habermas’ Ethics of Intersubjectivity

    • Elvis Imafidon
    Pages 255-279

  17. Levinas Meets the Postcolonial: Rethinking the Ethics of the Other

    • AB (Benda) Hofmeyr
    Pages 280-295

  18. Rorty’s Contribution to Postmodern Ethics

    • Amaechi Udefi
    Pages 296-309

  19. Human Conversation and the Evolution of Ethics in Kitcher’s Pragmatic Naturalism

    • Farinola Augustine Akintunde
    Pages 310-325

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 326-344
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About this book

Through the works of key figures in ethics since modernity this book charts a shift from dominant fixated, objective moral systems and the dependence on moral authorities such as God, nature and state to universal, formal, fallible, individualistic and/or vulnerable moral systems that ensue from the modern subject's exercise of reason and freedom.                     

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria

    Elvis Imafidon

About the editor

Francis Offor, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Joseph Osei, Fayetteville State University, United States. Anthony O. Echekwube, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria. Blessing O. Agidigbi, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria. Sharli Anne Paphitis, Rhodes University, South Africa. Bob Robinson, University of Portland, Oregon. Benda Hofmeyr, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Gerasimos Kakoliris, University of Athens, Greece. Peter Ikhane, Dominican Institute, Nigeria. Isaac E. Ukpokolo, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Gregory Sadler, Marist College, New York. Precious O. Ighoroje, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Elvis Imafidon, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria. Amaechi Udefi, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Farinola Augustine Akintunde, University of Lagos, Nigeria.                          

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Ethics of Subjectivity

  • Book Subtitle: Perspectives since the Dawn of Modernity

  • Editors: Elvis Imafidon

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472427

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47241-0Published: 25 June 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50124-3Published: 01 January 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47242-7Published: 02 June 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 344

  • Topics: Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind

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