Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism: Levinas, Derrida and Nancy

Madeleine Fagan

ISBN 10: 1474420508 / ISBN 13: 9781474420501

Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2016

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BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326. . 2016. Reprint. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism: Levinas, Derrida and Nancy
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474420508
• ISBN 13: 9781474420501
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Madeleine Fagan is an Institute of Advanced Studies Global Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. She is co-editor of Derrida: Negotiating the Legacy (Edinburgh University Press, 2007)