Author: Margaret Urban Walker File Type: pdf This is a revised edition of Walkers well-known book in feminist ethics first published in 1997. Walkers book proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to rethink the epistemological and moral position of the ethical theorist, and how moral theory is inescapably shaped by culture and history. The main gist of her book is that morality is embodied in practices of responsibility that express our identities, values, and connections to others in socially patterned ways. Thus ethical theory needs to be empirically informed and politically critical to avoid reiterating forms of socially entrenched bias. Responsible ethical theory should reveal and question the moral significance of social differences. The book engages with, and challenges, the work of contemporary analytic philosophers in ethics.Moral Understandings has been influential in reaching a global audience in ethics and feminist philosophy, as well as in tangential fields like nursing ethics research ethics disability ethics environmental ethics, and social and political theory. This revised edition contains a new preface, a substantive postscript to Chapter 1 about the subject of moral philosophy the addition of a new chapter on the importance of emotion in practices of responsibility and the addition of an afterword, which responds to critics of the book.ReviewWalkers book challenges all of us to reflect on how ethics are inextricably connected to psychology, sociology, history adn anthropology. Her book would... be especially appropriate for upper-level moral or feminist philosophy classes where nontraditional approaches to ethics are emphasized.Marcia L. Homiak, Signs, Spring 2001Walker provides a devastating critique of the gender, race, class, and other biases endemic to the theoretical-juridical model assumed in most nonfeminist ethics. Her own expressive-collaborative ethics of responsibility offers a persuasive alternative not only to the theoretical-juridical model but also to the ethics of care as that has been construed in many feminist discussions. Presenting feminist ethics in a somewhat unexpected light, this profound and original book reaches new levels of theoretical insight and moral understanding..Alison M. Jaggar, University of Colorado, BoulderAbout the AuthorMargaret Urban Walker is Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University. She is author of Moral Contexts and Moral Repair Reconstructing Moral Relations After Wrongdoing, and editor of Mother Time Women, Aging and Ethics and Moral Psychology Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, with Peggy DesAutels.

Author: Kevin M. F. Platt File Type: pdf Is there an essential Russian identity? What happens when Russian literature is written in English, by such authors as Gary Shteyngart or Lara Vapnyar? What is the geographic home of Russian culture created and shared via the internet? Global Russian Cultures innovatively considers these and many related questions about the literary and cultural life of Russians who in successive waves of migration have dispersed to the United States, Europe, and Israel, or who remained after the collapse of the USSR in Ukraine, the Baltic states, and the Central Asian states. The volumes internationally renowned contributors treat the many different global Russian cultures not as displaced elements of Russian cultural life but rather as independent entities in their own right. They describe diverse forms of literature, music, film, and everyday life that transcend and defy political, geographic, and even linguistic borders. Arguing that Russian cultures today are many, this volume contends that no state or society can lay claim to be the single or authentic representative of Russianness. In so doing, it contests the conceptions of culture and identity at the root of nation-building projects in and around Russia.