Ethics After Poststructuralism: A Critical Reader

Author:   Lee Olsen ,  Brendan Johnston ,  Ann Keniston
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
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Pages:   241
Publication Date:   10 March 2020
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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 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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Author:   Lee Olsen ,  Brendan Johnston ,  Ann Keniston
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.393kg
ISBN:  

9781476676876


ISBN 10:   1476676879
Pages:   241
Publication Date:   10 March 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii Introduction (Lee Olsen and Brendan Johnston) 1 Section 1: Hospitality and Responsibility for the Other Responsibility for the Other (Emmanuel Levinas) 19 From Hospitality, Justice, and Responsibility: A Dialogue (Jacques Derrida) 23 Precarious Life (Judith Butler) 37 Is Autonomy Unethical? Trauma and the Politics of Responsibility (Mari Ruti ) 54 Feminist Reflections on Vulnerability: Disrespect, Obligation, Action (Ewa Plonowska Ziarek) 72 Section 2: States of Exception From Right of Death and Power over Life (Michel Foucault) 93 Introduction to Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben 101 Liberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality in the Age of Globalization (Meyda Yegenoglu) 110 Section 3: Decoloniality and Ethics Sensibility and Otherness in Emmanuel Levinas (Enrique Dussel) 135 From Globalization, Organization, and the Ethics of Liberation (Enrique Dussel with Eduardo Ibarra-Colado) 147 On Pluritopic Hermeneutics, Trans-modern Thinking, and Decolonial Philosophy (Madina V. Tlostanova and Walter D. Mignolo) 156 From Levinas's Hegemonic Identity Politics, Radical Philosophy, and the Unfinished Project of Decolonization (Nelson Maldonado-Torres) 170 Section 4: Posthuman Ethics From The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow) (Jacques Derrida) 187 From Posthuman Ethics and the Becoming Animal of Emmanuel Levinas (Mary Bunch) 209 From Articulating Ecological Ethics and Politics (Mick Smith) 227 Affirmation versus Vulnerability: On Contemporary Ethical Debates (Rosi Braidotti) 248 Index 267

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In Ethics after Poststructuralism, Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, and other prominent thinkers reflect upon the most urgent ethical questions in continental philosophy, after Heidegger. The editors have done an impressive job of assembling and juxtaposing key texts in order to generate further dialogue and debate. This book offers a readable introduction to poststructural theory. It would also work in the seminar setting. --Christopher Wise, Western Washington University.


Ethics after Poststructuralism offers an impressive portrait of the richness of Levinas's philosophy for thinking about the most important and challenging ethical issues of our time, including multiculturalism, liberalism, feminism, state authority, immigration, decolonialism, posthumanism, and ecology. Ethics after Poststructuralism stands among the most exciting invitations to become ethical, in a Levinasian sense, that I have read. It is destined to become a classic. --Raoul Moati, The University of Chicago, author of Levinas and the Night of Being. In Ethics after Poststructuralism, Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, and other prominent thinkers reflect upon the most urgent ethical questions in continental philosophy, after Heidegger. The editors have done an impressive job of assembling and juxtaposing key texts in order to generate further dialogue and debate. This book offers a readable introduction to poststructural theory. It would also work in the seminar setting. --Christopher Wise, Western Washington University


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Lee Olsen lectures at the University of Nevada, Reno. His work focuses on post-1950s North American literature, political economics, and trauma theory. Brendan Johnston lectures at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on 20th Century American literature, modernist poetry, and materialist theory. Ann Keniston is a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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