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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021
Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest
young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is talking about today
'Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a
crucial lineage in feminist writing' JIA TOLENTINO 'I believe Amia
Srinivasan's work will change the world' KATHERINE RUNDELL
'Rigorously researched, but written with such spark and verve. The
best non-fiction book I have read this year' PANDORA SYKES
------------------------- How should we talk about sex? It is a
thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act
laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by outside
forces; a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart. To
grasp sex in all its complexity - its deep ambivalences, its
relationship to gender, class, race and power - we need to move
beyond 'yes and no', wanted and unwanted. We need to rethink sex as
a political phenomenon. Searching, trenchant and extraordinarily
original, The Right to Sex is a landmark examination of the
politics and ethics of sex in this world, animated by the hope of a
different one. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022 LONGLISTED FOR
THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY
BOOK PRIZE 2022
New Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics offers a new
agenda for work where these three disciplines meet. It showcases
three generations of scholars—from newly minted professors to
some of today's most distinguished thinkers. Consisting of fifteen
conversations, pairs of chapters dedicated to a single topic, the
volume provides intergenerational and multidisciplinary
perspectives on aspects of our social world. Each conversation
comprises a first paper by a scholar who sets the topic, followed
by a second paper by a scholar of a different generation, and
usually a different discipline, who offers further insight or
commentary. Each conversation thus provides two sets of original
thoughts about a matter of lively current interest and
interdisciplinary significance. Topics investigated include moral
revolutions, AI and democracy, trust and the rule of law,
responsibility, praise and blame, reasonableness, duty, political
obligation, justice and equality, justice and intersectionality,
domination, pornography, intentions in the law, and legal
argumentation. Written in clear prose, the volume is accessible by
philosophers, lawyers, political theorists, and beyond.
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Moral Progress (Hardcover)
Philip Kitcher; As told to Jan-Christoph Heilinger, Rahel Jaeggi, Susan Neiman; Volume editing by Amia Srinivasan
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This inaugural volume in the Munich Lectures in Ethics series
presents lectures by noted philosopher Philip Kitcher. In these
lectures, Kitcher develops further the pragmatist approach to moral
philosophy, begun in his book The Ethical Project. He uses three
historical examples of moral progress-the abolition of chattel
slavery, the expansion of opportunities for women, and the
increasing acceptance of same-sex love-to propose methods for moral
inquiry. In his recommended methodology, Kitcher sees moral
progress, for individuals and for societies, through collective
discussions that become more inclusive, better informed, and
involve participants more inclined to engage with the perspectives
of others and aim at actions tolerable by all. The volume is
introduced by Jan-Christoph Heilinger and contains commentaries
from distinguished scholars Amia Srinivasan, Susan Neiman, and
Rahel Jaeggi, and Kitcher's response to their commentaries.
New Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics offers a new
agenda for work where these three disciplines meet. It showcases
three generations of scholars—from newly minted professors to
some of today's most distinguished thinkers. Consisting of fifteen
conversations, pairs of chapters dedicated to a single topic, the
volume provides intergenerational and multidisciplinary
perspectives on aspects of our social world. Each conversation
comprises a first paper by a scholar who sets the topic, followed
by a second paper by a scholar of a different generation, and
usually a different discipline, who offers further insight or
commentary. Each conversation thus provides two sets of original
thoughts about a matter of lively current interest and
interdisciplinary significance. Topics investigated include moral
revolutions, AI and democracy, trust and the rule of law,
responsibility, praise and blame, reasonableness, duty, political
obligation, justice and equality, justice and intersectionality,
domination, pornography, intentions in the law, and legal
argumentation. Written in clear prose, the volume is accessible by
philosophers, lawyers, political theorists, and beyond.
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