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Index
Cover
Half-Title
Series
Dedication
Title
Contents
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Introduction The failure of ethics in the West
A history of collaboration
Ethics reenvisioned
PART ONE The tyranny of the absolute
1 The trouble with post-Kantian ethics: Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillassoux on the vicissitudes of ethical absolutes
The ironic antinomies of post-Kantian ethical and political thought
The limits of liberalism
The dogmatic structure of nationalism
Alain Badiou and the “smug nihilism” of post-Kantian ethics
The ethics of fidelity
Quentin Meillassoux on the rise of post-critical fanaticism
Factial speculation and radical contingency
The fragility of Meillassoux’s hope
The trouble with speculative ethics
2 Phenomenology, ethics, and the Other: Rediscovering the possibility of ethical absolutes with Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas
Phenomenology’s problem
Edmund Husserl’s reduction
The radical foundations of the phenomenological revolution
Emmanuel Levinas and the possibility of phenomenological ethics
Martin Heidegger and primal ontology
Levinas and the ethical primacy of the Other
Shame and the Other
Responsibility and ethical subjectivity
Phenomenology and the absolute
3 The problem of the Other: Levinas and Schelling on the reversibility of ethical demand
The face of the Other as absolute phenomena
The absolute and the infinite
Levinas’s God?
The ethical value of Levinas’s absolute
The ambiguity of the infinite
Schelling and the absolute reality of good and evil
The reversibility of good and evil in the absolute
The Other as absolute ground for good and evil
Interlude Sympathy for the devil: The tyranny of heaven
The evil of acquiescence
Kierkegaard’s apologetics for murder
A report on the banality of evil revisited
The tyranny of heaven
PART TWO The ethics of resistance
4 Don’t give up, don’t give in! Jacques Lacan and the ethics of psychoanalysis
The radical power of Lacan’s thought
Unconsciousness unsettled
The alterity of the Other
Desire for the Other
The subversion of the subject
The Other/Thing
The ethics of psychoanalysis
5 Carving a space of freedom: Michel Foucault and the ethics of resistance
Michel Foucault and the exigency of ethical resistance
The uses of genealogy
The modern subject—Governmentality, normalization, and bio-power
The trouble with modern subjectivity and the ethics of resistance
Ethics as care for the self
Technologies of care
Care for the self in relation to the absolute Other
Conclusion The ethics of resistance: A backward-turning relation
Ethics and the absolute
A backward-turning relation
Politics as first philosophy
The political ends of anarchy
The ethics of ab-archy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
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