The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction

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State University of New York Press, 2012 M02 1 - 248 páginas
This original contribution to the ethical and political significance of philosophy addresses a number of major themes—identity, violence, the erotic, freedom, responsibility, religious belief, globalization—and critically engages with the work of Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Derrida, and Levinas. It promotes a unique blend of deconstructive critique and a certain English skepticism, leading to the affirmation of a negative capability—a patience and vigilance in the face of both human folly and philosophy's own homegrown pathologies. The author argues for the extension of our sense of openness and responsibility to animal life, and indeed life in general, and not just to the human.
 

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Toward a Negative Capability
1
PART I Philosophy and Violence
9
PART II Singular Encounters
71
PART III Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction
129
The Antioxidant of Higher Education
189
Notes
195
Index
229
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David Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His many books include Thinking After Heidegger.

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