Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II

Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II
ISBN-10
0814798942
ISBN-13
9780814798942
Series
Signs of Resistance
Category
History
Pages
230
Language
English
Published
2004-11-01
Publisher
NYU Press
Author
Susan Burch

Description

Much contemporary political philosophy has been a debate between utilitarianism on the one hand and Kantian, or rights-based ethic has recently faced a growing challenge from a different direction, from a view that argues for a deeper understanding of citizenship and community than the liberal ethic allows. The writings collected in this volume present leading statements of rights-based liberalism and of the communitarian, or civic republican alternatives to that position. The principle of selection has been to shift the focus from the familiar debate between utilitarians and Kantian liberals in order to consider a more powerful challenge ot the rights-based ethic, a challenge indebted, broadly speaking, to Aristotle, Hegel, and the civic republican tradition. Contributors include Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre.

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