Overview
- Offers methods for contextualized moral reflection on contemporary moral problems and phenomena
- Presents ethics in a way that is available for scholarly and non-scholarly audiences alike
- Applies Wittgenstein’s thought to moral issues
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This volume showcases contemporary, ground-up ethical essays in the tradition of Wittgenstein’s broader philosophy and Wittgenstein-inspired ethical reflection. It takes the ethical relevance of Wittgenstein as a substantial and solid starting point for a broad range of ongoing thinking about contemporary ethical issues.
The texts are organised in two sections. The first consists of chapters exploring questions around what could be called the “grammar” of our moral forms of life, and thus represents a more traditional approach in ethics after Wittgenstein. The second part represents a recent turn in the tradition towards investigating moral conceptions, perspectives and concepts that are undergoing change, either because the world itself is changing (for instance with new technologies) or because human agency, such as social movements, has brought us to reconsider previously unquestioned ideas and structures.
Within the book, the authors’ contributions are inspired, in their ways of working with ethical questions, by Wittgenstein’s conceptions of language, understanding and the nature of philosophical inquiry. This book is of interest to philosophers influenced by Wittgenstein, as well as to all ethicists seeking ideas for how to do philosophy in a manner close to lived experience and practice.
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- ethics of intimate relations
- contemporary queer and feminist criticism
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Grammatical Investigations
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Historical Investigations
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Salla Aldrin Salskov is finalizing her dissertation on epistemic habits in queer feminist theory, and on Wittgenstein’s language philosophy and ethics. Her work on intersectionality, feminist philosophy, racialization, and homonationalism, love and Wittgenstein has been published in Sexualities, NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, NORMA: International Journal of Masculinity Studies, and Politics and Policy Futures in Education. She is also one of the editors of a special issue on feminist epistemic habits and critique in Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics (2017).
Ondřej Beran is a researcher at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (University of Pardubice). His recent publications include Examples and Their Role in Our Thinking (Routledge 2021), Living with Rules (Peter Lang 2018) and From Rules to Meanings (Routledge 2018, co-edited with V. Kolman and L. Koreň).
Nora Hämäläinen is a senior researcher at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (University of Pardubice). She is the author of Literature and Moral Theory (Bloomsbury 2015, paperback 2017), Descriptive Ethics: What does Moral Philosophy Know about Morality (Palgrave Macmillan 2016), and Är Trump postmodern? (Helsinki: Förlaget 2019, for a general audience, in Swedish).
Ondřej Beran is a researcher at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (University of Pardubice). His recent publications include Examples and Their Role in Our Thinking (Routledge 2021), Living with Rules (Peter Lang 2018) and From Rules to Meanings (Routledge 2018, co-edited with V. Kolman and L. Koreň).
Nora Hämäläinen is a senior researcher at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value (University of Pardubice). She is the author of Literature and Moral Theory (Bloomsbury 2015, paperback 2017), Descriptive Ethics: What does Moral Philosophy Know about Morality (Palgrave Macmillan 2016), and Är Trump postmodern? (Helsinki: Förlaget 2019, for a general audience, in Swedish).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethical Inquiries after Wittgenstein
Editors: Salla Aldrin Salskov, Ondřej Beran, Nora Hämäläinen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98084-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98083-2Published: 19 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98086-3Published: 20 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98084-9Published: 18 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 272
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, Philosophy of Language