Wittgenstein's Ethics and Modern Warfare

By Nil Santiáñez
Subjects: Fine Arts, Treatments & Subjects, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Ethics

This original and insightful book establishes a reciprocal relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ethics and the experience of war. It puts forth an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s ...

Animal Subjects 2.0

Edited by Jodey Castricano & Lauren Corman
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics
Series: Environmental Humanities

Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World (WLU Press, 2008) challenged cultural studies to include nonhuman animals within its purview. While the “question of the animal” ricochets ...

Writing in Dust

By Jenny Kerber
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature, Philosophy, Ethics
Series: Environmental Humanities

Writing in Dust is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an ecocritical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny Kerber considers ...

Animal Subjects

Edited by Jodey Castricano
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Cultural Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the question of the animal has lagged behind developments in broader society with regard to animal suffering in factory ...

Taking Responsibility for Children

Edited by Robert Noggle & Samantha Brennan
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Philosophy, Ethics, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

What do we as a society, and as parents in particular, owe to our children? Each chapter in Taking Responsibility for Children offers part of an answer to that question. Although they vary in the approaches ...

Dilemmas of Reconciliation

Edited by Carol Prager & Trudy Govier
Subjects: Political Science, History, Philosophy, Ethics

How can bitter enemies who have inflicted unspeakable acts of cruelty on each other live together in peace?
At a time in history when most organized violence consists of civil wars and when nations resort ...

Persons — What Philosophers Say about You

By Warren Bourgeois
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics

Can a person suffer radical change and still be the same person?
Are there human beings who are not persons at all?
Western philosophers, from the ancient Greeks to contemporary thinkers, gave the concept ...

Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World

Edited by Gary L. Redcliffe, Marilyn J. Legge, and Phyllis D. Airhart
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Series: Comparative Ethics

Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World is an apt title for this collection of essays in honour of Roger C. Hutchinson who, over many decades, has encouraged and participated in shaping a Canadian contextual ...

Clothed in Integrity

By Barbara Paleczny
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Philosophy, Ethics
Series: Studies in Women and Religion

Barbara Paleczny, herself a daughter of garment workers, tugs at the threads of homeworking in the garment industry to reveal a low-wage strategy that rends the fabric of social integrity and exposes ...

Towards an Ethics of Community

Edited by James Olthuis
Subjects: Religion, Philosophy, Ethics
Series: Comparative Ethics

How do we deal with difference personally, interpersonally, nationally? Can we weave a cohesive social fabric in a religiously plural society without suppressing differences?
This collection of significant ...