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Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of
Ethical Thought draws from feminist theory, post-structuralist
theory, and complexity theory to develop a new set of ethical
concepts for broaching the thinking challenges that attend the
experience of unwanted pregnancy. Author Karen Houle does not only
argue for these concepts; she enacts a method for working with
them, a method that brackets the tendency to take positions and to
think that position-taking is what ethical analysis involves. This
book thus provides concrete evidence of a theoretically-grounded,
compassionate way that people in all walks of life, academic or
otherwise, could come to a better understanding of, and more
complex relationship to, difficult ethical issues. On the one hand,
this is a meta-ethical book about how people can conceive and
communicate moral ideas in ways that are more constructive than
position-taking; on the other hand, it is also a book about
abortion. It testifies from a first-person female perspective about
the life-long complexity that attends fertility, sexuality and
reproduction. But it does not do so in order to ratify abortion as
a woman's issue or a private matter or as feminist work. Rather,
its aim is to excavate the ethical richness of the situation of
unwanted pregnancy showing that it connects to everyone, affects
everyone, and thus gives everyone something unique and new to
think.
Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of
Ethical Thought draws from feminist theory, post-structuralist
theory, and complexity theory to develop a new set of ethical
concepts for broaching the thinking challenges that attend the
experience of unwanted pregnancy. Author Karen Houle does not only
argue for these concepts; she enacts a method for working with
them, a method that brackets the tendency to take positions and to
think that position-taking is what ethical analysis involves. This
book thus provides concrete evidence of a theoretically-grounded,
compassionate way that people in all walks of life, academic or
otherwise, could come to a better understanding of, and more
complex relationship to, difficult ethical issues. On the one hand,
this is a meta-ethical book about how people can conceive and
communicate moral ideas in ways that are more constructive than
position-taking; on the other hand, it is also a book about
abortion. It testifies from a first-person female perspective about
the life-long complexity that attends fertility, sexuality and
reproduction. But it does not do so in order to ratify abortion as
a woman's issue or a private matter or as feminist work. Rather,
its aim is to excavate the ethical richness of the situation of
unwanted pregnancy showing that it connects to everyone, affects
everyone, and thus gives everyone something unique and new to
think.
Alongside the major narratives of ethics in the tradition of
Western philosophy, a reader with an eye to the vague and the
peripheral, to the turbulent and shifting, will spy minor lines of
thinking - and with them, new histories and thus new futures. Minor
Ethics develops a new approach to reading texts from the history of
philosophical ethics. It aims to enliven lines of thought that are
latent and suppressed within the major ethical texts regularly
studied and taught, and to include texts and ideas that have been
excluded from the canon of Western ethics. The editors and
contributors have put Gilles Deleuze's concepts - such as affect,
assemblage, and multiplicity - into conversation with a range of
ethical texts from ancient thought to the present. Rather than
aiming for a coherent whole to emerge from these threads, the
essays maintain a vigilant alertness to difference, to vibrations
and resonances that are activated in the coupling of texts. What
emerges are new questions, new problems, and new trajectories for
thinking, which have as a goal the liberation of ethical
questioning. Minor Ethics takes up a range of canonical ethical
questions and thinks through concrete ethical problems relating to
drug addiction, environmental responsibility, xenophobia, trauma,
refugees, political parties, and cultural difference. The responses
to these concerns demonstrate the minoritarian promise of the
opening up of ethical thinking.
Alongside the major narratives of ethics in the tradition of
Western philosophy, a reader with an eye to the vague and the
peripheral, to the turbulent and shifting, will spy minor lines of
thinking - and with them, new histories and thus new futures. Minor
Ethics develops a new approach to reading texts from the history of
philosophical ethics. It aims to enliven lines of thought that are
latent and suppressed within the major ethical texts regularly
studied and taught, and to include texts and ideas that have been
excluded from the canon of Western ethics. The editors and
contributors have put Gilles Deleuze's concepts - such as affect,
assemblage, and multiplicity - into conversation with a range of
ethical texts from ancient thought to the present. Rather than
aiming for a coherent whole to emerge from these threads, the
essays maintain a vigilant alertness to difference, to vibrations
and resonances that are activated in the coupling of texts. What
emerges are new questions, new problems, and new trajectories for
thinking, which have as a goal the liberation of ethical
questioning. Minor Ethics takes up a range of canonical ethical
questions and thinks through concrete ethical problems relating to
drug addiction, environmental responsibility, xenophobia, trauma,
refugees, political parties, and cultural difference. The responses
to these concerns demonstrate the minoritarian promise of the
opening up of ethical thinking.
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