Author: Robin S. Dillon File Type: pdf Criticism and Compassion The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card offers a unique perspective on the range of issues explored by Card during her distinguished career in philosophy. ul lInvestigates her work as an early leader in the development of feminist philosophy, challenging many preconceptions about the societys norms regarding gender, marriage, and motherhoodl lCrossing many disciplinary boundaries, her concept of social death has come to play a significant role in multidisciplinary field of genocide studiesl lThis volume combines many of Claudia Cards important essays with recently commissioned essays by leading philosophers whose work has been influenced by Cardl lThe full scope of Cards philosophy is presented here - both in her own words and those of her critics and interpretersl ul**From the Back CoverCriticism and Compassion The Ethics and Politics of Claudia Card offers a unique perspective on the range of issues explored by Card during her distinguished career in philosophy. She was an early leader in the development of feminist philosophy, challenging many preconceptions about societys norms regarding gender, marriage, and motherhood. Her work in these areas raised fundamental issues in ethical theory as it had been conceived in the profession. Her work on evil, human rights, war, and genocide crossed many disciplinary boundaries. Her concept of social death has come to play a significant role in the multidisciplinary field of genocide studies. This volume combines many of Claudia Cards important essays with recently commissioned essays by leading philosophers whose work has been influenced by Card. The full scope of Cards philosophy is presented here, both in her own words and in those of her critics and interpreters. About the AuthorROBIN S. DILLON is the William Wilson Selfridge Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics at Lehigh University. She writes on self-respect - to which Claudia Card introduced her - and related concepts, including respect, arrogance, humility, self-forgiveness, and self-esteem. She has also published numerous articles on Kantian ethics, feminist ethics, and virtue and vice. ARMEN T. MARSOOBIAN is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University and Editor-in-Chief of Metaphilosophy. He has taught as a visiting professor at Columbia University. He has lectured and published extensively on topics in American philosophy, aesthetics, moral philosophy, and genocide studies. He has edited five books, including The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy and Genocides Aftermath Responsibility and Repair with Claudia Card. His award-winning book Fragments of a Lost Homeland Remembering Armenia is based upon extensive research about his family, the Dildilians, who were accomplished photographers in the Ottoman Empire. Exhibitions of their photography were mounted in Turkey, Armenia, Great Britain, and the United States.

Author: Fabio A. Camilletti File Type: pdf How can one make poetry in a disenchanted age? For Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) this was the modern subjects most insolvable deadlock, after the Enlightenments pitiless unveiling of truth. Still, in the poems written in 1828-29 between Pisa and the Marches, Leopardi manages to turn disillusion into a powerful source of inspiration, through an unprecedented balance between poetic lightness and philosophical density. The addressees of these cantos are two prematurely dead maidens bearing names of nymphs, and thus obliquely metamorphosed into the charmingly disquieting deities that in Greek lore brought knowledge and poetic speech through possession. The nymph, Camilletti argues, can be seen as the inspirational power allowing the utterance of a new kind of poetry, bridging antiquity and modernity, illusion and disenchantment, life and death. By reading Leopardis poems in the light of Freudian psychoanalysis and of Aby Warburgs and Walter Benjamins thought, Camilletti gives a groundbreaking interpretation of the way Leopardi negotiates the original fracture between poetry and philosophy that characterises Western culture.Fabio Camilletti is Assistant Professor in Italian at the University of Warwick. **