Throwing the Moral Dice : Ethics and the Problem of Contingency /

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More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very horizon of everyday life. Often used as a synonym for the precariousness of working conditions under neoliberalism, for the unknown threats posed by terror...

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Otros Autores: Badiou, Alain (Contribuidor), Balibar, Étienne (Contribuidor), Braidotti, Rosi (Contribuidor), Claviez, Thomas (Contribuidor, Editor ), Cornell, Drucilla (Contribuidor), Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich (Contribuidor), Marchi, Viola (Contribuidor, Editor ), Naas, Michael (Contribuidor), Wolfe, Cary (Contribuidor), Žižek, Slavoj (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]
Colección:Just Ideas
Temas:
Literary Studies.
Philosophy & Theory.
Political Science.
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Emmanuel Levinas.
Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot.
Jacques Lacan.
Jean-Luc Nancy.
Karl Marx.
Michel Foucault.
affirmation.
agency.
community.
contingency.
deconstruction.
dialectics.
digitalization.
ecology.
ethics.
feminist theory.
metonymy.
negation.
passivity.
relationality.
social systems theory.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword: Ethics and Contingency
  • Introduction. Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics 2.0, Contingency, and Dialectics
  • I Throwing the Moral Dice Ethics and/of Contingency
  • Three Notes on Contingency Today Stress, Science-and Consolation from the Past?
  • Cosmopolitan Ethics as an Ethics of Contingency Toward a Metonymic Community
  • Dumb Luck Jacques Derrida and the Problem of Contingency
  • The Apophatic Community Ethics, Contingency, Negation
  • II Other Others Ethics 2.0 and the Problem of the "Unsynthesizable"
  • Commonality versus Individuality An Ethical Dilemma?
  • Critique, Power, and the Ethics of Affirmation
  • The Promise of Practical Philosophy and Institutional Innovation
  • Ethics of Circular Time
  • The Road Not Taken Environmental Ethics, Reciprocity, and Non-Negative Nonagency
  • "There Is No World" Living Life in Deconstruction and Theoretical Biology
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors
  • Index

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