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An Ethics of Dissensus - Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy (Paperback, REV Cover)
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An Ethics of Dissensus - Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy (Paperback, REV Cover)
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What kind of challenge does sexual and racial difference pose for
postmodern ethics? What is the relation between ethical obligation
and feminist interpretations of embodiment, passion, and eros? How
can we negotiate between ethical responsibility for the Other and
democratic struggles against domination, injustice, and inequality,
on the one hand, and internal conflicts within the subject, on the
other? What are the implications of postmodern ethics for the
agonistic politics of radical democracy?
We cannot address such questions, Ziarek argues, without putting
into dialogue discourses that have hitherto been segregated:
postmodern ethics, feminism, race theory, and the idea of radical
democracy. Addressing a constellation of diverse
thinkers--including Emmanuel Levinas, Patricia Williams,
Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Julia
Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray--the author proposes a new conception
of ethics, an ethics of dissensus that rethinks the relation
between freedom and obligation in a double context of embodiment
and antagonism.
As the unavoidable yet productive dissonance among antagonism,
freedom, and obligation suggests, the ethics of dissensus seeks not
to transcend politics but to articulate the difficult role of
responsibility and freedom in democratic struggles against racist
and sexist oppression. Opposing the conservative political work of
privatized moral discourse that reduces social antagonism to the
apolitical experience of good and evil, the ethics of dissensus
calls into question not only the depoliticized subject of ethics
but also the disembodied notions of citizenship, rights, and
democratic community.
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