...With the help of Lacan's seminar on anxiety, I draw out characteristics of the Real to develop the doubled aporia of race and ethics in the neolbieral episteme. To develop this in a cultural mode, I conclude with a meditation on New Orleans, a city that helped to birth cool so long ago, and the non...

...Lestel explains what exactly he means when he refers to “ethical vegetarians.” Vegetarianism Ethics Utilitarianism Feminism 3 a vegetarian is a human being who prefers to eat only plants (vegetables and fruits), even though she possesses metabolically, physically...

... bodies: the National Commission for the protection of Human Subjects of Behavioral and Biomedical research, and the Ethics Advisory Board of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Brown Louise biotechnology “fabricated man ” visions of Haldane J B S Huxley Julian Muller Hermann Ethics...

... a dominant narrative coding prevails. The chapter then considers how we may relate some other philosophical ideas to the cinema of the Dardennes, before turning to the ethical dimension of their films. August Bille Belvaux Lucas Cannes film festival Cantet Laurent Coppola Francis Ford Dumont Bruno...

...This chapter examines the so-called Sontag Effect and its positive implications for the regeneration of aesthetics. Susan Sontag's writings since the 1960s are primarily concerned with the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of contemporary art. At the same time, she is a critic of the anti-aesthetic...

...A short ethical discussion of the benefits of slaying in the name of God. Amalekites Jehovah Samuel Prophet Saul King Assyrians Abraham Patriarch Conflict of the Faculties Kant Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard Isaac Patriarch Judaism Kant Immanuel Kierkeggard Søren “Existentialism...

... of Desire Butler administration of life contingent formations ethical life Frames of War Butler Left discourse of life and life ontological tact precariousness social ontology bare life language vulnerability and power The Psychic Life of Power Butler subordination vulnerability Gender...

... in left-party politics to questions of socialist ethics. communalism Communities of Resistance Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism Sivanandan The Country and the City Williams immigration studies postcolonial studies Sivanandan Ambalavaner Sri Lanka When Memory Dies Sivanandan Williams...

...This chapter examines Erich Fromm’s career as a clinician and ethicist. For Fromm, “socialist,” or “ethical,” humanism and clinical work reinforced each other. His upbeat tone at the conclusion of Escape from Freedom signaled a reawakening of the Jewish prophetic tradition that had...

... experience of the world in the body; (2) an ethic of flourishing founded on the mutual porosity and vulnerability of the world and the body; (3) a politics of flourishing founded on a democracy of local contexts; (4) a spirituality of flourishing founded on religious themes of consumption, violence, death...

...In this dialogue, Dr. Rebecca Franklin and German scientist Gordon Baum discuss the politics and ethics of stem cells. Franklin is interested in how German scientists view their responsibility to the law and ethical norms while they investigate the medical benefits of human embryonic stem cells...

...In this dialogue, Dr. Rebecca Franklin and Dr. Howard Chadwick, director of the National Center for Stem Cells within the (fictional) National Institutes of Health, discuss the ethics of cloning. The purpose of the National Center for Stem Cells is to help integrate regenerative medicine...

...This book has explored the science and ethics behind stem cells, as well as the excitement and optimism within the scientific community about the role stem cells would someday play in treating human disease. It has revealed many intersecting voices expressing the hopes and dreams of the afflicted...

...The first book to focus on the intersection of Western philosophy and the Asian martial arts, Striking Beauty studies the historical and philosophical traditions of Asian martial arts practice and its ethical value in the modern world. Expanding Western philosophy’s usual outlook...

...This chapter sets out the book's aim which is to establish a more nuanced representation of the mother–child relationship, one that highlights its conflicted nature. The obscurity of human relationships results in an uncertain ethical orientation, contingent on reconciling the interrelated yet...

...This chapter discusses how women seek freedom from the confinement of feminine roles, but not without pointing out that the domestic realm is ethically and politically significant. Drawing on the same claims as the wider women's movement, the feminist revolution also changed the field of ethics...

...This concluding chapter argues that in conducting a phenomenology of ethics, we should aim to describe ethical life as it is experienced. Ethics involves an inclination toward others and oneself, as well as the structure of these relations. To be ethical is something toward which individuals must...

...” is to understand that interaction as ethical or unethical.“The Birthmark” represents the latter, Hairspray the former inasmuch as it makes the case not for gender unmoored from the constraints of convention but rather for a democratizing ethics of imperfection. Aesthetic value Aesthetics...