Ethics After Poststructuralism: A Critical Reader (Ethics and Culture)

by: Lee Olsen (Editor),Brendan Johnston (Editor),Ann Keniston (Editor)&1more

Publisher: McFarland

Publication Date: 2020/3/10

Language: English

Print Length: 283 pages

ISBN-10: 1476676879

ISBN-13: 9781476676876

Book Description

The present era of economic devastation, legacies of colonization and imperialism, climate change and habitat loss, calls for a new understanding of ethics. These essays on otheess, responsibility and hospitality raise urgent questions. Contributors range from the prominent–including Levinas, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben–to recent theorists such as Judith Butler, Enrique Dussell and Rosi Braidotti. The essays emphasize the always vulnerable status of a radically different Other, even as they question what responsibility to that Other might mean.

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The present era of economic devastation, legacies of colonization and imperialism, climate change and habitat loss, calls for a new understanding of ethics. These essays on otheess, responsibility and hospitality raise urgent questions. Contributors range from the prominent–including Levinas, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben–to recent theorists such as Judith Butler, Enrique Dussell and Rosi Braidotti. The essays emphasize the always vulnerable status of a radically different Other, even as they question what responsibility to that Other might mean.