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"The book covers all of Camus's significant writings and includes thorough expositions of The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger, The Fall, The Plague, and The Rebel. A discussion of the metaphysical and practical connotations of Camus's celebrated concept of the Absurd lays the foundation for a discussion of the later works, which are considered in the context of Camus's basic ethical orientation. This, it is contended, harks back (and, with its recent resurgence, forward) to a virtue ethics of sorts. It is argued that Camus's literary characters are purified phenomenological portraits that reflect the existential temptations of an overwhelmed modern consciousness, and the ethico-political works reflect the efforts of a morally committed consciousness to come to grips with a modern world unable to make good the moral imperative. In the end, it is argued, Camus offers a phenomenological ethics, which is all that is left of virtue ethics when social life has broken down."--Jacket

Introduction -- Adorno's relation to the existential and phenomenologicial traditions -- Adorno and Kierkegaard -- Adorno's critique of Kierkegaard -- Adorno's kierkegaardian debt -- Adorno and Heidegger -- Adorno's critique of Heidegger -- Adorno and Heidegger are irreconcilable -- Adorno and Husserl -- Subjectivity in Sartre's existential phenomenology -- The Frankfurt School's critique of Sartre -- Adorno on Sartre -- Marcuse's critique of being and nothingness -- Sartre's relation to his precursors in the phenomenological and existential traditions -- Being -- Knowing -- Death -- Sartre's mediating subjectivity -- Sartre's decentered subject and freedom -- Being-for-others : the ego in formation -- Bad faith and the fundamental project -- Situated freedom and purified reflection -- Adorno's dialectic of subjectivity -- The (de)formation of the subject -- The dawn of the subject -- Science, morality, art -- Adorno, Sartre, anti-semitism, psychoanalysis -- Subjectivity and negative dialectics -- Freedom model -- History model -- Negative dialectics, phenomenology, and subjectivity

Abstract
Although philosophers tend to differ in terms of the criteria that they offer for determining when market transactions should be morally prohibited, they tend to converge with respect to a certain methodological bias: they fail to reflexively consider how the existing politico-economic context bears on the way in which they formulate these criteria. After discussing the nature of actually existing, rather than idealized, markets, I consider four such offerings, which are either liberal egalitarian or communitarian, and I articulate how this failure is manifested in their respective positions. I conclude by pointing toward an alternative approach to the question of marketization, one that is both methodologically and substantively more faithful to the scope of the underlying problems that this question raises.

Explores Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri's neo-Marxist text Empire (Harvard UP, 2000). Their views are compared with those of New Class theorists, & an analysis of Hardt & Negri's concepts, namely subjectivity, is presented. Hardt & Negri are criticized for following an "identity logic" with a subjectivity based on an artificial positivity. The problems of the views of Hardt & Negri of their postmodern ontology are identified, & their ontology is considered neither materialist nor imminent. L. Collins Leigh