The Question of Ethics Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger [Paperback]

... stimulating and insightful... a thoroughly researched and timely contribution to the secondary literature of ethics... Library Journal

His important new work establishes Scott... as one of the foremost interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition of the US.... Necessary for anyone working in ethics or the Continental tradition. Choice

... a provocative discourse on the consequences of the ethical in the thought of Nietzsche, Foucault, and Heidegger. The Journal of Religion

Charles E. Scott's challenging book advances the broad claim that ethics as a way of judging and thinking has come into question as philosophers have confronted suffering and conflicts that arise from our traditional systems of value.

Acknowledgments
Selected Works Cited

One Introduction: The Question Concerns Ethics

Two The Question Turns on Ethics:
Self-Overcoming in Nietzsches Genealogy of the Ascetic Ideal
1. The Functions of Recoil
2. Nietzsches Self-Overcoming Is the Middle Voice of Metaphysics
3. Genealogy and the Ascetic Ideal
4. The Ascetic Ideal and the Ascetic Priest: There is Nothing of Virtue in This
5. Probably It Infects Even Us

Three Ethics Is the Question: The Fragmented Subject in Foucaults Genealogy
1. Genealogys Ethos
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Reason: Reasons Recoil in Madness
3. A Genealogy of Genealogical Knowledge
4. Fragmented Man
5. Games of Truth, the Ethical Subject

Four The Question of Daseins Most Proper Being
1. Daseins Eigenste Being
2. A Recoiling Search for Authenticity
3. The Question of Suffering
4. Ecstasis
5. Overturning in The Basic Problems of Phenomenology
6. The Truth of Ecstasis
7. Ethos/Ecstasis

Five These Violent Passions: The Rectors Address

Six All TruthIs That Not a Compound Lie?
The Aescetic Ideal in Heideggers Thought
1. The Unfolding of thel#-