ISBN:
9781786608659
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
303.372
Keywords:
Social ethics
Abstract:
Ideal for students in philosophy, animal studies and gender studies, this volume explores an important question: what grounds our ethical responsibility? It covers a range of topics including maternal bodies, animal rights, capital punishment, depression and trauma, demonstrating the evolution of Kelly Oliver's seminal work in response ethics.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- What Is Response Ethics? -- Part I: Interrelational Subjects and Social Sublimation -- 1 The Gestation of the Other in Phenomenology -- 2 Vision beyond Domination -- 3 Social Melancholy, Shame, and Sublimation -- Part II: Responsible Subjects and Witnessing -- 4 Witnessing Subjectivity and Testimony -- 5 Witnessing, Recognition, and Response Ethics -- 6 Rethinking Response Ethics -- Part III: Response Ethics and the Non-Humans -- 7 Animal Ethics -- 8 Service Dogs -- 9 Earth Ethics and Creaturely Cohabitation -- Part IV: Witnessing in the Age of Spectacle -- 10 Capital Punishment and the Fantasy of "Good Death" -- 11 Rape as Spectator Sport and Creepshot Entertainment -- 12 Perpetual War, Pornographic Looking, and Visual Technologies -- Index.
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