Ethics After Poststructuralism: A Critical Reader (Ethics and Culture)

✍ Scribed by Lee Olsen (editor), Brendan Johnston (editor), Ann Keniston (editor)

• Publisher: McFarland
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Lee Olsen and Brendan Johnston)
Section 1: Hospitality and Responsibility for the Other
Responsibility for the Other (Emmanuel Levinas)
From “Hospitality, Justice, and Responsibility: A Dialogue” (Jacques Derrida)
Precarious Life (Judith Butler)
Is Autonomy Unethical? Trauma and the Politics of Responsibility (Mari Ruti)
Feminist Reflectionson Vulnerability Disrespect, Obligation, Action (Ewa Plonowska Ziarek)
Section 2: States of Exception
From “Right of Death and Power over Life” (Michel Foucault)
Introduction to Homo Sacer (Giorgio Agamben)
Liberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality in the Age of Globalization (Meyda Yegenoglu)
Section 3: Decoloniality and Ethics
“Sensibility” and “Otherness” in Emmanuel Levinas (Enrique Dussel)
From “Globalization, Organization, and the Ethics of Liberation” (Enrique Dussel with Eduardo Ibarra-Colado)
On Pluritopic Hermeneutics, Trans-modern Thinking, and Decolonial Philosophy (Madina V. Tlostanova and Walter D. Mignolo)
From “Levinas’s Hegemonic Identity Politics, Radical Philosophy, and the Unfinished Project of Decolonization” (Nelson Maldonado-Torres)
Section 4: Posthuman Ethics
From “The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)” (Jacques Derrida)
From “Posthuman Ethics and the Becoming Animal of Emmanuel Levinas” (Mary Bunch)
From “Articulating Ecological Ethics and Politics” (Mick Smith)
Affirmation versus Vulnerability On Contemporary Ethical Debates (Rosi Braidotti)
Index