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Throwing the Moral Dice - Ethics and the Problem of Contingency (Paperback): Thomas Claviez, Viola Marchi Throwing the Moral Dice - Ethics and the Problem of Contingency (Paperback)
Thomas Claviez, Viola Marchi; Foreword by Alain Badiou; Contributions by Etienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, …
R852 Discovery Miles 8 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very horizon of everyday life. Often used as a synonym for the precariousness of working conditions under neoliberalism, for the unknown threats posed by terrorism, or for the uncertain future of the planet itself, contingency needs to be calculated and controlled in the name of the protection of life. The overcoming of contingency is not only called upon to justify questionable mechanisms of political control; it serves as a central legitimating factor for Enlightenment itself. In this volume, nine major philosophers and theorists address a range of questions around contingency and moral philosophy. How can we rethink contingency in its creative aspects, outside the dominant rhetoric of risk and dangerous exposure? What is the status of contingency-as the unnecessary and law-defying-in or for ethics? What would an alternative "ethics of contingency"-one that does not simply attempt to sublate it out of existence-look like? The volume tackles the problem contingency has always posed to both ethical theory and dialectics: that of difference itself, in the difficult mediation between the particular and the universal, same and other, the contingent singularity of the event and the necessary generality of the norms and laws. From deconstruction to feminism to ecological thought, some of today's most influential thinkers reshape many of the most debated concepts in moral philosophy: difference, agency, community, and life itself. Contributors: Etienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Thomas Claviez, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Viola Marchi, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe, Slavoj Zizek

Throwing the Moral Dice - Ethics and the Problem of Contingency (Hardcover): Thomas Claviez, Viola Marchi Throwing the Moral Dice - Ethics and the Problem of Contingency (Hardcover)
Thomas Claviez, Viola Marchi; Foreword by Alain Badiou; Contributions by Etienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, …
R2,917 Discovery Miles 29 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very horizon of everyday life. Often used as a synonym for the precariousness of working conditions under neoliberalism, for the unknown threats posed by terrorism, or for the uncertain future of the planet itself, contingency needs to be calculated and controlled in the name of the protection of life. The overcoming of contingency is not only called upon to justify questionable mechanisms of political control; it serves as a central legitimating factor for Enlightenment itself. In this volume, nine major philosophers and theorists address a range of questions around contingency and moral philosophy. How can we rethink contingency in its creative aspects, outside the dominant rhetoric of risk and dangerous exposure? What is the status of contingency-as the unnecessary and law-defying-in or for ethics? What would an alternative "ethics of contingency"-one that does not simply attempt to sublate it out of existence-look like? The volume tackles the problem contingency has always posed to both ethical theory and dialectics: that of difference itself, in the difficult mediation between the particular and the universal, same and other, the contingent singularity of the event and the necessary generality of the norms and laws. From deconstruction to feminism to ecological thought, some of today's most influential thinkers reshape many of the most debated concepts in moral philosophy: difference, agency, community, and life itself. Contributors: Etienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Thomas Claviez, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Viola Marchi, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe, Slavoj Zizek

The Conditions of Hospitality - Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics on the Threshold of the Possible (Hardcover): Thomas Claviez The Conditions of Hospitality - Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics on the Threshold of the Possible (Hardcover)
Thomas Claviez
R2,616 Discovery Miles 26 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hospitality is a multi-faceted concept that has been received by, and worked into, various academic realms and disciplines, such as philosophy, politics, anthropology, aesthetics, ethics, and translation studies. The essays collected in this volume, by a wide range of international contributors, examine how, in the wake of the work of Levinas and the late Derrida, this concept has entered into and transformed the thinking of these disciplines.

Zur Aktualitat von Jacques Ranciere - Einleitung in sein Werk (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2016): Dietmar J. Wetzel, Thomas... Zur Aktualitat von Jacques Ranciere - Einleitung in sein Werk (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2016)
Dietmar J. Wetzel, Thomas Claviez
R1,451 Discovery Miles 14 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Das Buch bietet einen hervorragenden Einstieg in die Theorie von Jacques Ranciere. Es werden die zentralen Theorieannahmen dargestellt und die Bedeutung fur die Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften der Gegenwart aufgezeigt.

Critique of Authenticity (Paperback): Thomas Claviez, Kornelia Imesch Critique of Authenticity (Paperback)
Thomas Claviez, Kornelia Imesch
R1,810 Discovery Miles 18 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Critique of Authenticity (Hardcover): Thomas Claviez Critique of Authenticity (Hardcover)
Thomas Claviez
R2,082 Discovery Miles 20 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Conditions of Hospitality - Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics on the Threshold of the Possible (Paperback): Thomas Claviez The Conditions of Hospitality - Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics on the Threshold of the Possible (Paperback)
Thomas Claviez
R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hospitality is a multi-faceted concept that has been received by, and worked into, various academic realms and disciplines, such as philosophy, politics, anthropology, aesthetics, ethics, and translation studies. The essays collected in this volume, by a wide range of international contributors, examine how, in the wake of the work of Levinas and the late Derrida, this concept has entered into and transformed the thinking of these disciplines.

Aesthetics & Ethics - Otherness and Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from 'uncle Tom's Cabin' to... Aesthetics & Ethics - Otherness and Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from 'uncle Tom's Cabin' to 'house Made of Dawn (Hardcover)
Thomas Claviez
R1,668 R1,474 Discovery Miles 14 740 Save R194 (12%) Out of stock

In a first, theoretical part, this study analyzes what role "otherness" plays in the most influential moral-philosophical approaches to date - from Aristotle and the Neo-Aristotelians (Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum) via Kantianism and its deconstructors (Jean-Francois Lyotard, J. Hillis Miller) to the works of Paul Ricoeur and Emmanuel Levinas - and sheds light on its highly problematic status in Western notions of justice and aesthetics. Starting from a revised notion of the sublime, the second part uses the different theoretical approaches to interpret four American novels (Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', Herman Melville's 'Billy Budd, Sailor', Richard Wright's 'Native Son', and N. Scott Momaday's 'House Made of Dawn'), and examines how far the respective moral-philosophical systems carry in elucidating these texts, as well as what role literary-historical and generic strategies play in dramatizing the encounter with "otherness."

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