The Voice of Conscience: A Political Genealogy of Western Ethical Experience

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. National Socialism and the Inner Truth The Call of Heidegger's Conscience Nihilism of Judgment: Arendt 3. Conscience in Moral and Political Theology Church Fathers between the Law and the Spirit Synderesis and Conscientia: Scholasticism Divine Instinct The Spark of the Soul: Eckhart and Tauler A Voluntarist Bias of William Ockham? The Lutheran Revocation The Return of the Repressed: Spiritualists and Pietists Calvin's Compromise The Puritan God within On the Modern Protestant Conscience 4. Conscience in Early Modern Moral and Political Philosophy The Witness of Natural Law from Su rez to Pufendorf The Candle of the Lord: Cambridge Platonists A Crisis of Conscience: Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke 5. The Conscience of the Enlightenment The Moral Sense from Shaftesbury to Smith The Judgement of Intuitive Reason: Clarke, Butler, Price, Reid and Beyond The French Experience: from Bayle to Rousseau The German Model: Wolff versus Crusius Immanuel Kant and the Infinite Guilt German Idealism: Conscience as Conviction 6. From Political Theology to Theologized Politics 7. Remarks on Late Modern Conscience Internalized Coercion: Nietzsche and Freud The Voice of the Other: Levinas and Derrida Ethics of the Real: Lacan 8. The Western Politics of Conscience On the Socratic Origins of the Politics of Conscience Conclusion

Mika Ojakangas is Professor of Political Thought at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. The author of five books and over 80 articles, his research areas include continental political theory, the history of political and ethical thought, and political theology.