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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
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