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The Ethics of Resistance : Tyranny of the Absolute.

"Opening a new debate on ethical reasoning after Kant, Drew Dalton addresses the problem of the absolute in ethical and political thought. Attacking the foundation of European philosophical morality, he critiques the idea that in order for ethical judgement to have any real power, it must attem...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dalton, Drew M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The failure of ethics in the West; A history of collaboration; Ethics reenvisioned; Part 1: The tyranny of the absolute; Chapter 1: The trouble with post-Kantian ethics:Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillassoux on the vicissitudes of ethical absolutes; The ironic antinomies of post-Kantian ethical and political thought; The limits of liberalism; The dogmatic structure of nationalism; Alain Badiou and the "smug nihilism" of post-Kantian ethics; The ethics of fidelity.
  • Quentin Meillassoux on the rise of post-critical fanaticismFactial speculation and radical contingency; The fragility of Meillassoux's hope; The trouble with speculative ethics; Chapter 2: Phenomenology, ethics, and the Other: Rediscovering the possibility of ethical absolutes with Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas; Phenomenology's problem; Edmund Husserl's reduction; The radical foundations of the phenomenological revolution; Emmanuel Levinas and the possibility of phenomenological ethics; Martin Heidegger and primal ontology; Levinas and the ethical primacy of the Other; Shame and the Other.
  • Responsibility and ethical subjectivityPhenomenology and the absolute; Chapter 3: The problem of the Other: Levinas and Schelling on the reversibility of ethical demand; The face of the Other as absolute phenomena; The absolute and the infinite; Levinas's God?; The ethical value of Levinas's absolute; The ambiguity of the infinite; Schelling and the absolute reality of good and evil; The reversibility of good and evil in the absolute; The Other as absolute ground for good and evil; Interlude: Sympathy for the devil: The tyranny of heaven; The evil of acquiescence.
  • Kierkegaard's apologetics for murderA report on the banality of evil revisited; The tyranny of heaven; Part 2: The ethics of resistance; Chapter 4: Don't give up, don't give in! Jacques Lacan and the ethics of psychoanalysis; The radical power of Lacan's thought; Unconsciousness unsettled; The alterity of the Other; Desire for the Other; The subversion of the subject; The Other/Thing; The ethics of psychoanalysis; Chapter 5: Carving a space of freedom: Michel Foucault and the ethics of resistance; Michel Foucault and the exigency of ethical resistance; The uses of genealogy.
  • The modern subject-Governmentality, normalization, and bio-powerThe trouble with modern subjectivity and the ethics of resistance; Ethics as care for the self; Technologies of care; Care for the self in relation to the absolute Other; Conclusion: The ethics of resistance: A backward-turning relation; Ethics and the absolute; A backward-turning relation; Politics as first philosophy; The political ends of anarchy; The ethics of ab-archy; Notes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Interlude; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.