On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics [Paperback]

... remarkable account of the impact of postmodern philosophy on the question of ethics and politics... commendable also for its balanced view of Heideggers relationship to politics and ethics.... an excellent account of Heideggers philosophical understanding of technology... Choice

This book takes as its point of departure the question of ethics: that values and their pursuit in the West often perpetuate their own worst enemies. At issue are the dangers in the structures and movements of images, values, and ways of knowing that are most intimately a part of our lives.

Acknowledgments
Selected Works Cited
Introduction: Crossing the Ethical by the Nonethical

1. Nonbelonging/Authenticity

2. Language in a Passing Sense of Transcendence

3. Ethics in a Passing Sense of Transcendence

4. A (Non-) Passing Sense of Tragedy

5. Thinking Noninterpretively

6. The Ascetic Ideal: Nietzsche contra Heidegger

7. Transition: What Is Paris Doing to US?

8. Self-Fragmentation: The Danger to Ethics

9. Not to Be Trapped by Abuse... : Genealogy and a Childs Pain

10. Responsibility and Danger

11. A Peoples Witness beyond Politics

12. Democratic Space

13. On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Politics for Life

Notes

Index

CHARLES E. SCOTT holds The Edwin Erle Sparks Chair in Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. His publications include The Question of Ethics, The Language of Difference, and Boundaries in Mind: A Study of Immediate Awareness Based in Psychotherapy.