Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Feminism and Postmodernism
2: Feminism and Pragmatism: A Reply to Richard Rorty
3: Feminism and the 'Crisis of Rationality'
4: Meaning What We Say: Feminist Ethics and the Critique of Humanism
5: The Feminist Stake in Greek Rationalism
6: 'Gendering' as an Ethical Concept
7: Ethical Upbringing: From Connivance to Cognition
8: Absolute Prohibitions without Divine Promises
9: Religion and Modernity: Living in the Hypercontext
10: 'In Spite of the Misery of the World': Ethics, Contemplation, and the Source of Value
11: 'Ethical Living' in the Media and in Philosophy
12: Selflessness and Other Moral Baggage
13: Nietzsche on Distance, Beauty, and Truth
14: Iris Murdoch and the Ambiguity of Freedom
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index

About the Author

Sabina Lovibond is an Emeritus Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, where she taught Philosophy from 1982 to 2011. Her work has been mainly in ethics and feminist theory, but with some continuing influence from ancient philosophy and from the later philosophy of Wittgenstein.