Ethical Subjects in Contemporary Culture
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About this book
Shows how ethical subjectivity is not based on individual morals but contemporary culture
- Pays particular attention to the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
- Engages with a number of important theorists of ethics and culture: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Irigaray, Foucault, Deleuze, Nancy and Badiou
- Focuses on ethical concerns such as sexual difference, vulnerability, secrecy, mediated communications, suffering, generosity, hospitality, friendship, censorship and death
Taking his lead from the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, and engaging with a number of ethical thinkers, Dave Boothroyd addresses a number of key contemporary ethical subjects. In doing so, he reveals how responsibility is grounded in the everyday encounters and situations we are all familiar with.
Reviews
This is a truly superb book. A real pleasure to read, it strikes just the right balance between cutting to the chase and drawing you in, with its elegant prose and lucid formulations. The book immediately situates you within a nexus of problems you recognize as crucial, but haven’t thought your way out of in quite the way that Boothroyd has.
Table of contents
1. The Subject of the ethical turn; 2. Empiricism, the ethical Subject and the ethics of hospitality; 3. Sexing the ethical Subject; 4. Vulnerability to violence and ethical sensibility; 5. The ethical Subject of new media communications; 6. Secrecy and the secret of ethical subjectivity; 7. Censored Subjects; 8. Suffering; 9. Hospitality, friendship and justice; 10. Death, or the end of Subject; Bibliography; Index.