Ethics After Poststructuralism: A Critical Reader

by Lee Olsen (Editor), Brendan Johnston (Editor), Ann Keniston (Editor)

Overview

The present era of economic devastation, legacies of colonization and imperialism, climate change and habitat loss, calls for a new understanding of ethics. These essays on otherness, responsibility and hospitality raise urgent questions. Contributors range from the prominent--including Levinas, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben--to recent theorists such as Judith Butler, Enrique Dussell and Rosi Braidotti. The essays emphasize the always vulnerable status of a radically different Other, even as they question what responsibility to that Other might mean.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476676876
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	03/24/2020
Series:	Ethics and Culture
Pages:	283
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.57(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lee Olsen lectures at the University of Nevada, Reno. His work focuses on post-1950s North American literature, political economics, and trauma theory. Brendan Johnston lectures at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on 20th Century American literature, modernist poetry, and materialist theory. Ann Keniston is a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction Lee Olsen Brendan Johnston 1

Section 1 Hospitality and Responsibility for the Other

Responsibility for the Other Emmanuel Levinas 19

From "Hospitality, Justice, and Responsibility: A Dialogue" Jacques Derrida 23

Precarious Life Judith Butler 37

Is Autonomy Unethical? Trauma and the Politics of Responsibility Mari Ruti 54

Feminist Reflections on Vulnerability: Disrespect, Obligation, Action Ewa Plonowska Ziarek 72

Section 2 States of Exception

From "Right of Death and Power over Life" Michel Foucault 93

Introduction to Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben 101

Liberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality in the Age of Globalization Meyda Yegenoglu 110

Section 3 Decoloniality and Ethics

"Sensibility" and "Otherness" in Emmanuel Levinas Enrique Dussel 135

From "Globalization, Organization, and the Ethics of Liberation" Enrique Dussel Eduardo Ibarra-Colado 147

On Pluritopic Hermeneutics, Trans-modern Thinking, and Decolonial Philosophy Madina V. Tlostanova Walter D. Mignolo 156

From "Levinas's Hegemonic Identity Politics, Radical Philosophy, and the Unfinished Project of Decolonization" Nelson Maldonado-Torres 170

Section 4 Posthuman Ethics

From "The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)" Jacques Derrida 187

From "Posthuman Ethics and the Becoming Animal of Emmanuel Levinas" Mary Bunch 209

From "Articulating Ecological Ethics and Politics" Mick Smith 227

Affirmation versus Vulnerability: On Contemporary Ethical Debates Rosi Braidotti 248

Index 267

Editorial Reviews

In Ethics after Poststructuralism, Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, and other prominent thinkers reflect upon the most urgent ethical questions in continental philosophy, after Heidegger. The editors have done an impressive job of assembling and juxtaposing key texts in order to generate further dialogue and debate. This book offers a readable introduction to poststructural theory. It would also work in the seminar setting.”—Christopher Wise, Western Washington University

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