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The Call of Conscience - Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate (Paperback)
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The Call of Conscience - Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
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Michael J. Hyde's pathbreaking study considers the relationship
between the phenomenon of conscience and the practice of rhetoric
as it relates to one of the most controversial issues of our
time-euthanasia. Hyde investigates how the practice of rhetoric
becomes a voice of conscience and influences the moral standards of
individuals and communities. In doing so, he offers the first
extensive treatment of Martin Heidegger's and Emmanuel Levinas's
philosophical investigations of conscience and an in-depth analysis
of the justifiability and social acceptability of euthanasia. Hyde
establishes the theoretical basis of his study by discussing and
critically assessing the phenomenological theories of conscience
set forth in the works of the two philosophers. To illustrate in
concrete terms how the relationship between the call of conscience
and the practice of rhetoric shows itself in everyday existence,
Hyde surveys the moral discourse that informs ongoing debates over
euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. He focuses on a cluster
of related topics that emerge from his discussion of the work of
Heidegger and Levinas, including the phenomena of deconstruction
and acknowledgment, emotion and the reconstructive power of
language, and the discursive creation of heroes. Through these
investigations Hyde accounts for some of the key definitions,
arguments, and narratives that contribute to the rhetoric of the
euthanasia debate, especially as the discussion has evolved since
the late 1980s.
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