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Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism : Levinas, Derrida and Nancy /
This groundbreaking book offers a fresh and innovative perspective on ethics and politics after poststructuralism. Madeleine Fagan argues that the 'ethical' should not be understood as a label; it does not mean 'good' or 'right', and is not an evaluation or guide. Rathe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Taking on the political.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction
- The Politics of Ethical Theory; The Limits of Ethical Theory; Non-foundational Ethics and Practical Politics; The Limits of Ethics and Politics; Map of the Book; Chapter 1Ethics, Politics, Limits; Introduction: Tracing the Limits of Theories; The Promise and Limitations of Post-foundational Ethics; Relational ethics; Relativism, inconsistency or blandness: a triple bind; Poststructuralism and progressive politics; The Move from Ethics to Politics; The politics of alterity; The ethical relation; The move from ethics to politics: duty in decision.
- The politics of alterity: democracyThe politics of ethical difference; The ethical relation; The move from ethics to politics: a Levinasian supplement; The politics of ethical difference: democracy; Refiguring the Limit between Ethics and Politics; Refusing ethics; The separation of ethics and politics; Working at the limits of theories; Chapter 2Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics as Relation; Introduction: Ethics, Politics and the Third Person; The Other; Ontology, knowledge and totalisation; Alterity and relational subjectivity; The face; Responsibility; The Third Person; The immediacy of the Third.
- The impossibility of responsibilityProblematising ethics and politics: justice, charity and the state; Relationality as Plurality; Chapter 3Jacques Derrida: The Im-possibility of Responsibility; Introduction: Theory, Im-possibility, Limits; The Responsible Decision; The limits of knowledge; The limits of the subject; The Ethics of Deconstruction?; Response, the Other and absolute duty; The unconditional; Undecidability; The Politics of Deconstruction?; Deducing politics from ethics; Political in(ter)ventions; Im-possibility and the trace; Chapter 4Jean-Luc Nancy: The Transimmanence of Ethics.
- Introduction: Starting at the LimitThe Singular-Plural of Being; The 'with' and the hyphen; Sharing, exposure and the in-common; Politics without Essence; Totalisation and the resistance of community; The politics of transimmanence; Ethics without Transcendence; The ethical and the ontological; The invention of justice; Ontology, ethos, limits; Chapter 5The Limits of Theory: Ethics, Politics, Practice; Introduction: Displacing the Line between Ethics and Politics; Grounds, Origins and Foundations; Looking for a more responsible politics; The relation of ethics and politics.