Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism

Levinas, Derrida and Nancy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19976573
AutoresMadeleine Fagan (0000-0002-7691-8489, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Páginas195
Data de publicação2013-10-30
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoEthics And Politics After Poststructuralism Levinas Derrida And Nancy (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3366/edinburgh/9780748685134.001.0001
OpenAlexW4235673148
Open LibraryOL26077494M
ISBN9780748685134
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11

This book offers a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of ethics and responsibility in the study of Politics and International Relations. The book asks what post-foundational accounts of ethics mean for practical politics: can we think about politics without an appeal to foundational ethics, and what might this politics look like? Drawing on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism puts forward a radical and far-reaching critique of both foundational and non-foundational ethical theory. The ‘ethical’, the book argues, 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; compelling and irreconcilable obligations can and do happen, in a forceful way, at the limits of foundations. As such the book proposes the need for sensitivity to the ways in which the existing order is already challenged and displaced from within through precisely the unsecured claims made in the name of ethics. Fagan offers an account of the inseparability of ethics and politics that challenges existing accounts of poststructuralist ethics and shows the need for a practice-based rethinking of the ethico-political

Appeal · Context (archaeology) · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Information ethics · Meta-ethics · Normative ethics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Criticism and interpretation · Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) · Ethik · Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) · Political ethics · Politische Philosophie · Poststructuralism · Poststrukturalismus