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Book SynopsisFrom deconstruction to feminism to ecological thought, some of today’s most influential thinkers consider the challenge that contingent life poses to the broad claims of ethics. In doing so, they reshape the most debated concepts of moral philosophy.
Table of ContentsForeword: Ethics and Contingency
Alain Badiou | ix
Introduction" Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics 2.0, Contingency, and Dialectics
Thomas Claviez and Viola Marchi | 1
I Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics and/of Contingency
Three Notes on Contingency Today: Stress, Science—and Consolation from the Past?
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht | 33
Cosmopolitan Ethics as an Ethics of Contingency: Toward a Metonymic Community
Thomas Claviez | 45
Dumb Luck: Jacques Derrida and the Problem of Contingency
Michael Naas | 69
The Apophatic Community: Ethics, Contingency, Negation
Viola Marchi | 94
II Other Others: Ethics 2.0 and the Problem of the “Unsynthesizable”
Commonality versus Individuality: An Ethical Dilemma?
Étienne Balibar | 127
Critique, Power, and the Ethics of Affirmation
Rosi Braidotti | 145
The Promise of Practical Philosophy and Institutional Innovation
Drucilla Cornell | 162
Ethics of Circular Time
Slavoj Žižek | 182
The Road Not Taken: Environmental Ethics, Reciprocity, and Non-Negative Nonagency
Thomas Claviez | 206
“There Is No World”: Living Life in Deconstruction and Theoretical Biology
Cary Wolfe | 229
Works Cited | 251
List of Contributors | 269
Index | 273
