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Book Synopsis The present era of economic devastation, legacies of colonization and imperialism, climate change and habitat loss, calls for a new understanding of ethics. These essays on otherness, responsibility and hospitality raise urgent questions. Contributors range from the prominent--including Levinas, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben--to recent theorists such as Judith Butler, Enrique Dussell and Rosi Braidotti. The essays emphasize the always vulnerable status of a radically different Other, even as they question what responsibility to that Other might mean.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction (Lee Olsen and Brendan Johnston) 1
Section 1: Hospitality and Responsibility for the Other
Responsibility for the Other (Emmanuel Levinas) 19
From "Hospitality, Justice, and Responsibility: A Dialogue" (Jacques Derrida) 23
Precarious Life (Judith Butler) 37
Is Autonomy Unethical? Trauma and the Politics
of Responsibility (Mari Ruti ) 54
Feminist Reflections on Vulnerability: Disrespect, Obligation,
Action (Ewa Plonowska Ziarek) 72
Section 2: States of Exception
From "Right of Death and Power over Life" (Michel Foucault) 93
Introduction to Homo Sacer
Giorgio Agamben 101
Liberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality
in the Age of Globalization (Meyda Yegenoglu) 110
Section 3: Decoloniality and Ethics
"Sensibility" and "Otherness" in Emmanuel Levinas (Enrique Dussel) 135
From "Globalization, Organization, and the Ethics
of Liberation" (Enrique Dussel with Eduardo Ibarra-Colado) 147
On Pluritopic Hermeneutics, Trans-modern Thinking, and Decolonial Philosophy (Madina V. Tlostanova and Walter D. Mignolo) 156
From "Levinas's Hegemonic Identity Politics, Radical Philosophy, and the Unfinished Project of Decolonization" (Nelson Maldonado-Torres) 170
Section 4: Posthuman Ethics
From "The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)"
(Jacques Derrida) 187
From "Posthuman Ethics and the Becoming Animal of Emmanuel Levinas" (Mary Bunch) 209
From "Articulating Ecological Ethics and Politics" (Mick Smith) 227
Affirmation versus Vulnerability: On Contemporary Ethical
Debates (Rosi Braidotti) 248
Index 267
