Ethical subjects in contemporary culture / Dave Boothroyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boothroyd, Dave.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Popular culture.

Difference (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dave Boothroyd develops an original perspective on Levinas' account of the ethical Subject as contingently and empirically embedded in everyday experience. He reads Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Irigaray, Deleuze, Badiou and Nancy alongside Levinas to address ethical issues such as sexual difference, vulnerability, secrecy, communications, suffering, hospitality, friendship, censorship and death.

Contents:

The subject of the ethical turn

Empiricism, the ethical subject ant the ethics of hospitality

Sexing the ethical subject

Vulnerability to violence and ethical sensibility

The ethical subject of new media communications

Secrecy and the secret of ethical subjectiity

Censored subjects

Suffering

Hospitality, friendship and justice

Death, or the end of the subject.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-7486-9379-3

0-7486-8166-3

OCLC:

853239387