M WADE MAHON
Biographic Data
| ID | 9626311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M WADE MAHON |
| GIVEN NAMES | M WADE |
| FAMILY NAME | MAHON |
| SIGNATURE | MAHON M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘To Fame Unknown’
This article identifies Thomas Spring and Barry Yelverton as the authors of three previously unattributed poems written between 1758 and 1761, around the time these two were beginning their law studies at the Middle Temple in London. Based on internal evidence from the poems themselves and clues from Samuel Whyte’s 1772 anthology The Shamrock and other sources, I argue they should be viewed as products of a short-lived literary coterie. The artic…
Michel Foucault’s Ethical Imagination
An ethics textbook aimed at university-level students, in listing the presuppositions of any ethical system, begins, "Singular moral judgments are never merely singular." By their very nature moral judgments are implicitly universalizable, and only "a peculiar kind of irrationality" that "has come to infect contemporary thinking" could allow one to dispute this self-evident truth. Aristotle was mystified by those who claimed that a characteristic…
The ethics of Michel Foucault
A recent ethics textbook aimed at university-level students, in listing the presuppositions of any ethical system, begins, "Singular moral judgments are never merely singular." By their very nature moral judgments are implicitly universalizable, and only "a peculiar kind of irrationality" that "has come to infect contemporary thinking" could allow one to dispute this self-evident truth. Aristotle was mystified by those who claimed that a characte…
Michel Foucault's archaeology, enlightenment, and critique
Michel Foucault's archaeology, enlightenment, and critique
The ethics of Michel Foucault
A recent ethics textbook aimed at university-level students, in listing the presuppositions of any ethical system, begins, "Singular moral judgments are never merely singular." By their very nature moral judgments are implicitly universalizable, and only "a peculiar kind of irrationality" that "has come to infect contemporary thinking" could allow one to dispute this self-evident truth. Aristotle was mystified by those who claimed that a characte…
Michel Foucault’s Ethical Imagination
An ethics textbook aimed at university-level students, in listing the presuppositions of any ethical system, begins, "Singular moral judgments are never merely singular." By their very nature moral judgments are implicitly universalizable, and only "a peculiar kind of irrationality" that "has come to infect contemporary thinking" could allow one to dispute this self-evident truth. Aristotle was mystified by those who claimed that a characteristic…
‘To Fame Unknown’
This article identifies Thomas Spring and Barry Yelverton as the authors of three previously unattributed poems written between 1758 and 1761, around the time these two were beginning their law studies at the Middle Temple in London. Based on internal evidence from the poems themselves and clues from Samuel Whyte’s 1772 anthology The Shamrock and other sources, I argue they should be viewed as products of a short-lived literary coterie. The artic…
Epistemology (3 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Function (biology) (2 works) · Irrationality (2 works) · Presupposition (2 works) · Rationality (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work)