An Ethics of Dissensus: Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy
Stanford University Press (2001)
| Abstract | 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 equality, on the one hand, and internal conflicts within the subject, on the other? 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-François 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. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Ethics, Modern Postmodernism Feminist ethics Democracy Moral and ethical aspects | |||||||||
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| Call number | BJ324.P67.Z53 2001 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0804741026 | |||||||||
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