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Book SynopsisAddressing a constellation of diverse thinkers including Emmanuel Levinas, Patricia Williams, Michel Foucault and Luce Irigaray, this book proposes a conception of ethics - an ethics of dissensus that rethinks the relation between freedom and obligation in the context of embodiment and antagonism.
Trade Review"Original, carefully argued, and beautifully written, this book is one of the first sustained attempts to think through the relationship between feminist ethics and feminist politics. Ziarek's nuanced readings of central figures in current debates in postmodern ethics provide not only new ways of interpreting their work but also new directions for ethical theory." -- Kelly Oliver * SUNY-Stony Brook *
"Ziarek has produced one of the most sensitive, thoughtful, original, and quietly provocative texts I know in the broad areas of contemporary philosophy and sexual and racial politics. . . . Trained in comparative literature and literary studies, she is equally at home in the most difficult and contentious of philosophical texts." -- Elizabeth Grosz, State University of New York * Buffalo *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Toward an experimental ethos of becoming: from docile bodies to ethical agency 2. Ethical responsibility, Eros, and the politics of race and rights 3. Toward an ethics of Dissensus: Lyotard's agnostic politics and the pursuit of justice 4. The libidinal economy of power, democracy and the ethics of psychoanalysis 5. Labor of the negative: the impossible ethics of sexual difference and the politics of radical democracy 6. Postmodern blackness/visionary feminism: paradigms of subjectivity, community, and ethics in Bell Hooks's work Afterword Notes Index.
