Good Enough Justice
Stanley Cavell and Walter Benjamin on the Moral Demands of Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21372197 |
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| Authors | Benjamin Brewer (0009-0002-5278-2502, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 745-761 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8256 • E-ISSN: 2329-8596 |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/philtoday2020108357 |
| OpenAlex | W3094738678 |
| Language | EN |
Taking Cavell’s misreading of Walter Benjamin as exemplary of this tendency, the essay shows how Cavell’s moral perfectionism consistently converts questions about the suffering of others into a problem of the self and its conscience, thereby avoiding the ethical claim at the heart of Benjamin’s project
Conscience · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Injustice · Perfectionism (psychology) · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Social Psychology · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Highly cited | No |
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