Kantian Deeds

AvHenrik Jøker Bjerre

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

Kantian Deeds revokes and renews the tradition of Kant's moral philosophy. Through a novel reading of contemporary approaches to Kant, Henrik Bjerre draws a new map of the human capacity for morality. Morality consists of two different abilities that are rarely appreciated at the same time. Human beings are brought up and initiated into a moral culture, which gives them the cognitive mapping necessary to act morally and responsibly. They also, however, acquire an ability to reach beyond that which is considered moral and thus develop an ability to reinterpret or break normal' morality. By drawing on two very different resources in contemporary philosophy more conservative trends in analytic philosophy and more radical sources in recent works of psychoanalytically informed philosophy and claiming that they must be read together, Kantian Deeds provides a new understanding of what is termed the structure of moral revolutions'. Essentially, deeds are revolutionary changes of moral character that can only be performed by such creatures that have acquired one.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-12-22
Mått:156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt:324 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Continuum Studies in Philosophy
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN:9781441155559

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Mer om författaren

Henrik Joker Bjerre is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Recensioner i media

"The main threat to Kant's legacy are today liberal Kantians themselves, from Jurgen Habermas to Robert Brandom. Against these revisionists who reduce Kant to a benign discourse-ethics, Bjerre's book triumphantly reasserts the unbearable real core of Kant 's ethical thought. Bjerre does not treat Kant as an interesting thinker from the past, but as an actual presence - no wonder his book is full of contemporary examples, anecdotes, and jokes. Arguably this is the most important book on ethics in the last decade - a book needed like daily bread!"- Slavoj Zizek "Henrik Bjerre's Kantian Deeds is definitely among the best studies of Kant - and of ethics in general - that I've read in many years. Not only it is well founded in close and extensive knowledge of Kantian philosophy and contemporary research in Kantian ethics, it is particularly remarkable for the courage and imagination with which it is written, the qualities sadly lacking in large part of academic research. The basic distinction that Bjerre draws between 'normal' moral acts and the moral deeds pertaining to 'extra-morality' is most forceful and productive, enabling the author to scrutinize and sort out a whole array of problems concerning the rigorous Kantian position in ethics. Not fearing or avoiding the (often radical) political edge of ethics, Bjerre's book represents a most valuable contribution to, and intervention into, the contemporary 'ethics and politics' debate." - Alenka Zupanck

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction ;1. The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within; 2. The Structure of Moral Revolutions; 3. The Other Side of Inference; 4. As if...; 5. Surplus Experiences; 6. Self-inflicted Immaturity; 7. Traces of the Unconditional; 8. On the Prohibition of Contemporary Wonders; Bibliography; Index.