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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
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
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.
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.
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.
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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