Martin Buber and Feminist Ethics: The Priority of the Personal (Martin Buber Library) - Softcover

James W. Walters

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815630107 ISBN 13: 9780815630104

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2003

Synopsis

As a deeply religious thinker who disclaimed all rationalistic systems, Martin Buber produced an insightful critique of modern philosophical ethics, one that became productive soil for another nontraditional philosophical ethic: feminism's care ethic. In light of the recent emphasis on the new morality, antifoundationalism, and postmodernism in ethics, the dialogical ethics of Martin Buber merits close examination. Most important, Walters compares and contrasts Buber's and feminism's personalist ethics in light of two considerations: the lack of attention by feminist writers to the feminist-Buber linkage and the long-standing and general inattention by twentieth-century thinkers to the ethical dimensions of Buber's thought.

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Synopsis:

As a religious thinker who disclaimed all rationalistic systems, Martin Buber produced an insightful critique of modern philosophical ethics, one that became productive soil for another non-traditional ethic: feminism's care ethic. Walters compares the personal ethics of the two perspectives.

About this edition

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0815630107
• ISBN 13: 9780815630104
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140