Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought

Simon Critchley

Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Verso Books
Country
United Kingdom
Published
9 June 2009
Pages
314
ISBN
9781844673513

Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought

Simon Critchley

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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