The Call of Conscience: Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate

A provocative rhetorical approach to one of the defining medical debates of our timeMichael J. Hyde's pathbreaking...
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The Call of Conscience: Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate by Hyde, Michael J.

The Call of Conscience: Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate

CHF 68.82

The Call of Conscience: Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate

CHF 68.82
Author: Michael J. Hyde
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A provocative rhetorical approach to one of the defining medical debates of our time

Michael J. Hyde's pathbreaking study considers the relationship between the phenomenon of conscience and the practice of rhetoric as it relates to the controversial issues of euthanasia. Hyde investigates how the practice of rhetoric becomes a voice of conscience and influences the moral standards of individuals and communities. In doing so, he offers the first extensive treatment of Martin Heidegger's and Emmanuel Levinas's philosophical investigations of conscience and an in-depth analysis of the justifiability and social acceptability of euthanasia.

Hyde establishes the theoretical basis of his study by discussing and critically assessing the phenomenological theories of conscience set forth in the works of the two philosophers. To illustrate how the relationship between the call of conscience and the practice of rhetoric shows itself in everyday existence, Hyde surveys the moral discourse that informs ongoing debates over euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. He focuses on a cluster of related topics that emerge from his discussion of the work of Heidegger and Levinas, including the phenomena of deconstruction and acknowledgment, emotion and the reconstructive power of language, and the discursive creation of heroes.



Author: Michael J. Hyde
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 07/10/2008
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9781570037863

About the Author

Michael J. Hyde is the Distinguished University Professor of Communication Ethics at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and holds a joint appointment in the Program for Bioethics, Health, and Society at Wake Forest's School of Medicine.


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