Martin Buber & Feminist Ethics: The Priority of the Personal

As a deeply religious thinker who disclaimed all rationalistic systems, Martin Buber produced an insightful critique of modern philosophical ethics, one that became productive soil for another nontraditional philosophical ethic: feminism's care ethic. In light of the recent emphasis on the new morality, antifoundationalism, and postmodernism in ethics, the dialogical ethics of Martin Buber merits close examination.

Most important, Walters compares and contrasts Buber's and feminism's personalist ethics in light of two considerations: the lack of attention by feminist writers to the feminist-Buber linkage and the long-standing and general inattention by twentieth-century thinkers to the ethical dimensions of Buber's thought.

Author: James W. Walters
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 10/01/2003
Pages: 156
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.66w x 0.37d
ISBN: 9780815630104

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2004 pg. 4