Existentialist thinkers and ethics / edited by Christine Daigle.

Other author Daigle, Christine, 1967-
Format Book
Publication InfoMontreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2006.
Description187 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Existential ethics.
Existentialism.
Existentialism in literature.

Contents Introduction: the problem of ethics for existentialism / Christine Daigle -- The exception as reinforcement of the ethical norm: the figures of Abraham and Job in Kierkegaard's ethical thought / Dominic Desroaches -- A Nietzschean solution to ethical relativism / David W. Goldberg -- The politics of authentic existence / Todd Lavin -- Yes, she is an ethicist: Arendt, responsibility, and existentialism / Stephen Schulman -- Sartre on atheism, freedom, and morality in The humanism of existentialism / Glenn Braddock -- An ethics of measure: Camus and Rousseau / Philip Knee -- The ambiguous ethics of Beauvoir / Christine Daigle -- Merleau-Ponty's embodied ethics: rethinking traditional ethics / Kym Maclaren -- Conclusion: from the ethical to the political / Christine Daigle.
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references: p. [171]-180.
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