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In Ethics – Politics – Subjectivity, Simon Critchley takes up three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: What is ethical experience? What can be said of the subject who has this experience? What, if any, is the relation of ethical experience to politics? Through spirited confrontations with major thinkers, such as Lacan, Nancy, Rorty, and, in particular, Levinas and Derrida, Critchley finds answers in a nuanced “ethics of finitude” and defends the political possibilities of deconstruction. Democracy, economics, friendship, and technology are all considered anew in Critchley’s bold excursions on the meaning and value of recent French philosophy.
“Simon Critchley is the most powerful and provocative philosopher now writing about the complex relations of ethical subjectivity and reinvigorated democracy.” — Cornel West
Simon Critchley is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research and at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK. He is the author of many books, including The Book of Dead Philosophers and, from Verso, Infinitely Demanding.
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Publication
May 2009
319 pages
Series
Radical Thinkers
Paper
ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 351 3
US$12.95 / £6.99 / CAN$16
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