The ethics of resistance : tyranny of the absolute / Drew M. Dalton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalton, Drew M., 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Neoliberalism.

Suicide bombings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Opening a new debate on ethical reasoning after Kant, Drew Dalton addresses the problem of the absolute in ethical and political thought. Attacking the foundation of European philosophical morality, he critiques the idea that in order for ethical judgement to have any real power, it must attempt to discover and affirm some conception of the absolute good. Without rejecting the essential role the absolute plays within ethical reasoning, Dalton interrogates the assumed value of the absolute. Dalton brings some of the most influential contemporary philosophical traditions into dialogue with each other: speculative realists like Badiou and Meillassoux; phenomenologists, including Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas; German Idealists, especially Kant and Schelling; psychoanalysts Freud and Lacan; and finally, post-structuralists, specifically Foucault, Deleuze, and Ranciere. The relevance of these thinkers to concrete socio-political problems is shown through reflections on the Holocaust, suicide bombings, the rise of neo-liberalism and neo-nationalism, as well as rampant consumerism and racism. This book re-defines ethical reasoning as that which refuses absolutes and resists what Milton's devil in Paradise Lost called the "tyranny of heaven." Against traditional ethical reasoning, Dalton sees evil not as a moral failure, but as the result of an all too easy assent to the absolute; an assent which can only be countered through active resistance. For Dalton, resistance to the absolute is the sole channel through which the good can be defined."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Part 1. The tyranny of the absolute

Part 2. The ethics of resistance.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-149).

ISBN:

9781350042056

1350042056

9781350152540

1350152544

9781350042063

1350042064

9781350042025

1350042021

OCLC:

1172298967