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Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity

Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity

Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought

by Simon Critchley
Paperback
Publication Date: 09/06/2009

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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.
ISBN:
9781844673513
9781844673513
Category:
Deconstructionism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
09-06-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
Verso Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
314
Dimensions (mm):
196x130x17mm
Weight:
0.34kg
Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley has published books on a wide expanse of ethical and philosophical subjects, including the bestselling The Book of Dead Philosophers, his cult novel Memory Theatre and his memoir-analysis of David Bowie - On Bowie (for Serpents Tail).

He is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, and series moderator of 'The Stone', a philosophy column in The New York Times. He comes from a Liverpool family and watches his team, devotedly, each weekend, 3306 miles away from Anfield.

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