Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism
Levinas, Derrida and Nancy
1st Edition
Published on 16. September 2013
209 pages
978-0-7486-8514-1 (ISBN)
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What would political thought look like without the foundation of ethics? Drawing on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, Madeleine Fagan puts forward a radical and far-reaching refusal of foundational ethics. Instead, she proposes an account of the inseparability of ethics and politics. The 'ethical' should not be understood as a label; it does not mean 'good' or 'right', it is not an evaluation or guide. Rather, both the ethical and the political are descriptions of the context in which we find ourselves. The book highlights the necessity of a practice-based rethinking of the relationship between ethics and politics and so denaturalises a series of commonplaces about poststructuralist ethics.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 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: democracy
- The 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 responsibility
- Problematising 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 ofEthics
- Introduction: Starting at the Limit
- The 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
- Immanence and Transcendence
- Transimmanence and the limits of grounds
- Alterity without transcendence
- Conduct as Origin: 'Practical' Politics
- Conclusion:Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Bibliography
- Index
