Ethics-politics-subjectivity : essays on Derrida, Levinas and contemporary French thought
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Ethics-politics-subjectivity : essays on Derrida, Levinas and contemporary French thought
(Radical thinkers)
Verso, 2009
- : pbk
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"First published by Verso 1999 ... Reprinted 2009"
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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