Ethics, politics, subjectivity : essays on Derrida, Levinas and contemporary French thought / Simon Critchley.
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TextSeries: Phronesis (London, England)Publication details: London ; New York : Verso, 1999.Description: ix, 310 p. : ill. 23 cmISBN: - 1859842461
- 194 CRI
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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?
These questions are approached by way of a critical confrontation with a number of major thinkers, including Lacan, Genet, Blanchot, Nancy, Rorty and, in particular, Levinas and Derrida. Critchley offers a critical reconstruction of Levinas's notion of ethical experience and, questioning the religious pietism and political conservatism of the dominant interpretation of Levinas's work, develops an ethics of finitude which, far from being tragic, opens on to an experience of humour and the comic. Using this reading of Levinas as a way of unlocking the rich ethical potential of Derrida's work, Critchley outlines and defends the political possibilities of deconstruction. On the basis of Derrida's recent work, Critchley attempts to rethink notions of friendship, democracy, economics and technology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Derrida's reading of Hegel in "Glas" -- Writing the Revolution : the politics of truth in Genet's "Prisoner of Lover" -- Post-deconstructive subjectivity? -- Deconstruction and pragmatism : is Derrida a private ironist or a public liberal? -- Metaphysics in the dark : a response to Richard Rorty and Ernesto Laclau -- Black Socrates? questioning the philosophical tradition -- The hypothesis, the context, the Messianic, the political, the economic, the technological : On Derrida's "Spectres of Marx" -- The original traumatism : Levinas and psychoanalysis -- Das Ding : Lacan and Levinas -- Comedy and finitude : displacing the tragic-heroic paradigm in philosophy and psychoanalysis -- With Being-With? : notes on Jean-Luc Nancy's rewriting of "Being and time" --The other's decision in me (what are the politics of friendship?)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
English philosopher Simon Critchley was born on February 27, 1960. He earned his BA (1985) and PhD (1988) from the University of Essex in England. Critchley received his M.Phil. from France's University of Nice in 1987.Critchley has held university fellow, lecturer, reader, and professor positions and was the Director of the Centre for Theoretical Studies at the University of Essex. Additionally, Critchley was President of the British Society for Phenomenology from 1994-1999, he held a Humboldt Research Fellowship in Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, and was Programme Director of the Collège International de Philosophie. Since 2004 Critchley has taught philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York.
Critchley's publications include "The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas," the collection of essays "Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity," "Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction," "On Humour," "Things Merely Are," "Infinitely Demanding," and the New York Times bestseller "The Book of Dead Philosophers".
(Bowker Author Biography)