Bryan Lueck

Obligation and the Fact of Sense

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Produktbeschreibung

A substantially new account of obligation, inspired by major thinkers in the Continental tradition Bryan Lueck offers a substantially new solution to a classic philosophical problem: how is it possible that morality genuinely obligates us, binding us without regard to our perceived or actual well-being? Lueck builds on Immanuel Kant's fact of reason - the idea that being a moral subject presupposes one's having accepted the bindingness of obligation always already - showing that it must be rethought as the fact of sense. Staging a fruitful dialogue between the analytic and Continental philosophical traditions, while reflecting specifically on the work of Hegel, Merleau-Ponty, Serres and Nancy, Lueck offers a creative approach to the problem of obligation, bringing vital new perspectives to bear on a long-standing philosophical problem. Bryan Lueck is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9781474442732
• ISBN-10: 1474442730
• Artikelnr.: 59413028

Autorenporträt

Bryan Lueck is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. His research focuses on topics in normative ethics including obligation, contempt, dignity and forgiveness, as well as on issues in 20th-century and contemporary Continental philosophy. He is the author of numerous articles on such figures as Immanuel Kant, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Serres, Jean-François Lyotard and Giorgio Agamben.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Ethics in the Sheep's Shop
1. Philosophical Reflection on Obligation
2. Elements of a General Conception of Obligation
1. Four Early Modern Accounts of Obligation
1. Voluntarism
2. Rationalism
3. Egoism
4. Sentimentalism
2. The Copernican Revolution in Ethics
1. Reflection as the Source of the Problem of Normativity
2. Kant and the Copernican Revolution in Ethics
3. The Argument of the Collins Lectures
4. The Argument of the Groundwork
5. The Fact of Reason
3. Perceptual and Expressive Sense
1. Normativity in Perceptual Experience
2. Two Objections to the Perception-Based Account
3. Saussurian Linguistics
4. Merleau-Ponty's Reinterpretation of Saussure
5. The Dynamic of Communication
6. Obligation and the Claim of the Other
4. Noise
1. Noise as Originary
2. Noise and Moral Sense
3. Exposure to Noise as the Fact of Sense
4. Harlequin Emperor of the Moon
5. The Devil or the Good Lord?
5. Abandonment and the Moral Law
1. Sense as Shared
2. Abandonment and Obligation
3. Dignity
6. Indifference
1. Obligation as Overriding
2. The Givenness of Facts
3. Subjunctive Indeterminacy
4. The Law of Expansion
7. Conclusion
1. Is This Still Obligation?
2. A Deflationary Account
Notes
Bibliography