Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity
Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought
Published on 5. May 2020
314 pages
978-1-78960-457-3 (ISBN)
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In Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity, Simon Critchley takes up three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: What is ethical experience? What can be said of the subject who has this experience? What, if any, is the relation of ethical experience to politics? Through spirited confrontations with major thinkers, such as Lacan, Nancy, Rorty, and, in particular, Levinas and Derrida, Critchley finds answers in a nuanced "ethics of finitude" and defends the political possibilities of deconstruction. Democracy, economics, friendship, and technology are all considered anew in Critchley's bold excursions on the meaning and value of recent French philosophy.
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English
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London
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978-1-78960-457-3 (9781789604573)
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Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity
Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought
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Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research, and a part-time professor of philosophy at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. His many books include Infinitely Demanding, Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity and, most recently, The Book of Dead Philosophers.
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1. Derrida's Reading of Hegel in Glas
- 2. Writing the Revolution: The Politics of Truth in Genet's Prisoner of Love
- 3. Post-Deconstructive Subjectivity?
- 4. Deconstruction and Pragmatism: Is Derrida a Private Ironist or a Public Liberal?
- 5. Metaphysics in the Dark: A Response to Richard Rorty and Ernesto Laclau
- 6. Black Socrates? Questioning the Philosophical Tradition
- 7. The Hypothesis, the Context, the Messianic, the Political, the Economic, the Technological: On Derrida's Spectres of Marx
- 8. The Original Traumatism: Levinas and Psychoanalysis
- 9. Das Ding: Lacan and Levinas
- 10. Comedy and Finitude: Displacing the Tragic-Heroic Paradigm in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
- 11. With Being-With? Notes on Jean-Luc Nancy's Rewriting of Being and Time
- 12. The Other's Decision in Me (What Are the Politics of Friendship?)
- Notes
- Index
