Ethics After Poststructuralism : A Critical Reader
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| Title: | Ethics After Poststructuralism : A Critical Reader |
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| 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 otherness, 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. |
| Authors: | Lee Olsen, Brendan Johnston, Ann Keniston |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Ethics, Modern--20th century, Ethics, Modern--21st century, Ethics--History--20th century, Ethics--History--21st century, Poststructuralism, Ethics, Modern |
| Categories: | PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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 otherness, 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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| ISBN: | 9781476676876 9781476639079 |
