{"product_id":"9781350262317","title":"Shaping a Modern Ethics : The Humanist Legacy from Nietzsche to Feminism by Professor Benjamin Bennett","description":"Is there any such thing as a   single ethical system to which all human beings could conceivably   subscribe?  The short answer is no; and   most people, being tolerant, would probably agree with this answer.  Yet most people, precisely in being   tolerant, also subscribe to an idea of \"human rights\" which presupposes just   such a universal ethics.  This basic question of ethics   is similarly treacherous when approached on a higher technical level.  Specialists have long recognized that   Kant's categorical imperative is neither theoretically nor practically   tenable.  But efforts to revive and   repair the Kantian project-including especially the monumental work of J?rgen   Habermas-have all themselves been theoretically questionable, while   developing a complexity that makes them impractical.   Must we then simply do without   ethics in the sense of a universal ethical method?  By way   of a close study of literary and philosophical texts, from Freud to   Machiavelli, Benjamin Bennett shows why the failure of a universal or propositional   ethics is indeed unavoidable. He uncovers a modern non-propositional ethics   that cannot be grasped in a single theoretical move but can  only be approached as a collection of   instances of a modern ethical \"we\", three key examples of which Bennett   explores in this book: - The \"we\" of irony, whose        speakers share a strictly preter-verbal knowledge which is concealed in        their actual utterances - The insistent exclusive        \"we\" of a group that has neither its own physical locality nor even a        clear intellectual identity, comparable to the \"we\" of Jews in the        diaspora - The \"we\" of feminism, a        separate \"we\" from that embracing people who happen to have been born        women.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297986294133,"sku":"9781350262317","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350262317.jpg?v=1762782053","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781350262317","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}