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Respect and Power The Foundations of Critical Ethics and Politics
By Roberto Mordacci
Copyright 2025
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book presents a historically informed, theoretically systematic, and critically articulated theory of respect that challenges many of the presuppositions of the current debate in ethics and politics. It develops a theory of respect as the rule of power relations, which draws connections between Kant’s critical philosophy and Critical Theory.
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Introduction
1. The Varieties of Respect
2. A Genealogy of Respect
3. Modern Philosophy and Respect
4. Contemporary Theories of Respect
5. Theory of Power
6. Power, Freedom, and Autonomy
7. Respect, Ethics, and Politics
Conclusion
Biography
Roberto Mordacci is Full Professor of Moral Philosophy at San Raffaele University, Milan. His research areas are the philosophy of history (postmodernism, utopia), normative ethics (respect, moral reasons), and critical theory. Among his recent books are Critica e utopia. Da Kant a Francoforte (Critique and Utopia. From Kant to Frankfurt, 2023); Ritorno a Utopia (Back to Utopia, 2020); La condizione neomoderna (The Neomodern Condition, 2017).
