Beyond the Pale: Reading Ethics from the Margins

How should Augustine, Aquinas, Bonhoeffer, Kant, Nietzsche, and Plato be read today, in light of postcolonial theory and twenty-first-century understandings? This book offers a reader-friendly introduction to Christian liberationist ethics by having scholars "from the margins" explore how questions of race and gender should be brought to bear on twenty-four classic ethicists and philosophers. Each short chapter gives historical background for the thinker, describes that thinker's most important contributions, then raises issues of concern for women and persons of color.

Contributors include George (Tink) Tinker, Asante U. Todd, Traci West, Darryl Trimiew, Ada MarÃ-a Isasi-DÃ-az, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, and many others.

Author: Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 09/12/2011
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780664236809

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2012

About the Author
de la Torre, Miguel A.: - Miguel A. De La Torre is Professor of Social Ethics and Latino/a Studies at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, and the author or editor of more than twenty-five books. He is the 2012 President of the Society of Christian Ethics.Floyd-Thomas, Stacey M.: -

Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas is Associate Professor of Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. She is the author or coeditor of numerous books, including Beyond the Pale: Reading Ethics from the Margins and Beyond the Pale: Reading Theology from the Margins, both published by Westminster John Knox Press.