Nature - General & Miscellaneous, Nature, Philosophy of, Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Theoretical
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In this fourth volume of Stephen David Ross's ongoing project reexamining Western philosophical tradition, The Gift of Kinds explores the order of things, linking the kinds of the natural world to disciplinary distinctions and to social divisions by gender, race, class, and nationality. It pursues a local and contingent ethics that pervades human life and the earth that responds to the expressiveness of things everywhere, resisting the tyranny of kinds, human and otherwise.Editorials
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In this fourth volume of the author's ongoing project reexamining Western philosophical tradition, he explores the order of things, linking the kinds of the natural world to disciplinary distinctions and to social divisions by gender, race, class, and nationality. He examines the idea of natural and human kinds as requisite to any thought of heterogeneity and any resistance to neutrality, developed in relation to ecological and environmental issues. The author is a professor of philosophy and comparative literature at State University of New York-Binghamton. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
November 29, 1999
Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press, 1999.
Pages
323
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780791442548