The turn to ethics / edited by Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz.

New York : Routledge, 2000.

xii, 238 pages ; 24 cm.

Proceedings of a conference.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : The turn to ethics / Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz -- What we talk about when we talk about ethics / Lawrence Buell -- Ethical ambivalence / Judith Butler -- The ethical practice of modernity : the example of reading / John Guillory -- Using people : Kant with Winnicott / Barbara Johnson -- The best intentions : newborn technologies and bioethical borderlines / Perri Klass -- Which ethics for democracy? / Chantal Mouffe -- Recognition without ethics? / Nancy Fraser -- Ethics of the other / Beatrice Hanssen -- On cultural choice / Homi K. Bhabha -- Attitude, its rhetoric / Doris Sommer -- Cosmopolitan ethics : the home and the world / Rebecca L. Walkowitz.