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Ethics and Politics After Poststructuralism: Levinas, Derrida and Nancy

Ethics and Politics After Poststructuralism: Levinas, Derrida and Nancy

Paperback

Series: Taking on the Political

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1474420508
ISBN13: 9781474420501
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Dec 1 2016
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

What would political thought look like without the foundation of ethics? Drawing on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, Madeleine Fagan puts forward a radical and far-reaching refusal of foundational ethics. Instead, she proposes an account of the inseparability of ethics and politics. The 'ethical' should not be understood as a label; it does not mean 'good' or 'right', it is not an evaluation or guide. Rather, both the ethical and the political are descriptions of the context in which we find ourselves. The book highlights the necessity of a practice-based rethinking of the relationship between ethics and politics and so denaturalises a series of commonplaces about poststructuralist ethics.

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