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What kind of challenge does sexual and racial difference pose for postmodern ethics? What is the relation between ethical obligation and feminist interpretations of embodiment, passion, and eros? How can we negotiate between ethical responsibility for the Other and democratic struggles against domination, injustice, and inequality, on the one hand, and internal conflicts within the subject, on the other? What are the implications of postmodern ethics for the agonistic politics of radical democracy? We cannot address such questions, Ziarek argues, without putting into dialogue discourses that have hitherto been segregated: postmodern ethics, feminism, race theory, and the idea of radical democracy. Addressing a constellation of diverse thinkers including Emmanuel Levinas, Patricia Williams, Jean-Fran ois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Julia Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray the author proposes a new conception of ethics, an ethics of dissensus that rethinks the relation between freedom and obligation in a double context of embodiment and antagonism.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Ethics & moral philosophy

• Full title: Ethics of Dissensus
• Subtitle: Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy
• Author: Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314
• EAN: 9780804741033
• ISBN: 0804741034
• ID: 04717246
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 416 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. September 2001

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