Obligation and the fact of sense / Bryan Lueck.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218) and index.

Philosophical Reflection on Obligation -- Elements of a General Conception of Obligation -- 1. Four Early Modern Accounts of Obligation -- Voluntarism -- Rationalism -- Egoism -- Sentimentalism -- 2. The Copernican Revolution in Ethics -- Reflection as the Source of the Problem of Normativity -- Kant and the Copernican Revolution in Ethics -- The Argument of the Collins Lectures -- The Argument of the Groundwork -- The Fact of Reason -- 3. Perceptual and Expressive Sense -- Normativity in Perceptual Experience -- Two Objections to the Perception-Based Account -- Saussurian Linguistics -- Merleau-Ponty's Reinterpretation of Saussure -- The Dynamic of Communication -- Obligation and the Claim of the Other -- 4. Noise -- Noise as Originary -- Noise and Moral Sense -- Exposure to Noise as the Fact of Sense -- Harlequin Emperor of the Moon -- The Devil or the Good Lord? -- 5. Abandonment and the Moral Law -- Sense as Shared -- Abandonment and Obligation -- Dignity -- 6. Indifference -- Obligation as Overriding -- The Givenness of Facts -- Subjunctive Indeterminacy -- The Law of Expansion -- 7. Conclusion -- Is This Still Obligation? -- A Deflationary Account.

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Staging a fruitful dialogue between the analytic and Continental philosophy, and reflecting specifically on the work of Hegel, Merleau-Ponty, Serres and Nancy, Lueck offers a creative new approach to the problem of moral obligation. Lueck builds on Immanuel Kant's fact of reason to give us a fresh rethinking of morality and wellbeing.

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