Situating the Self: Gender, Community, and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics - Paperback

by Seyla Benhabib (Author)

This book is an attempt to defend the tradition of universalism in the face of a triple-pronged critique by engaging with the claims of feminism, communitarianism, and postmodernism and by learning from them. It situates reason and the moral self more decisively in contexts of gender and community.

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Focusing on contemporary debates in moral and political theory, 'Situating the Self' argues that a non-relative ethics, binding on us in virtue of our humanity, is still a philosophically viable project.