Ethics After Poststructuralism

Lee Olsen lectures at the University of Nevada, Reno. His work focuses on post-1950s North American literature, political economics, and trauma theory. Brendan Johnston lectures at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on 20th Century American literature, modernist poetry, and materialist theory. Ann Keniston is a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.

“In Ethics after Poststructuralism, Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, and other prominent thinkers reflect upon the most urgent ethical questions in continental philosophy, after Heidegger. The editors have done an impressive job of assembling and juxtaposing key texts in order to generate further dialogue and debate. This book offers a readable introduction to poststructural theory. It would also work in the seminar setting.”—Christopher Wise, Western Washington University

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction (Lee Olsen and Brendan Johnston)Section 1: Hospitality and Responsibility for the OtherResponsibility for the Other (Emmanuel Levinas)From “Hospitality, Justice, and Responsibility: A Dialogue” (Jacques Derrida)Precarious Life (Judith Butler)Is Autonomy Unethical? Trauma and the Politics of Responsibility (Mari Ruti)Feminist Reflections on Vulnerability: Disrespect, Obligation, Action (Ewa Plonowska Ziarek)Section 2: States of ExceptionFrom “Right of Death and Power over Life” (Michel Foucault)Introduction to Homo SacerGiorgio AgambenLiberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality in the Age of Globalization (Meyda Yegenoglu)Section 3: Decoloniality and Ethics“Sensibility” and “Otherness” in Emmanuel Levinas (Enrique Dussel)From “Globalization, Organization, and the Ethics of Liberation” (Enrique Dussel with Eduardo ­Ibarra-Colado)On Pluritopic Hermeneutics, ­Trans-modern Thinking, and Decolonial Philosophy (Madina V. Tlostanova and Walter D. Mignolo)From “Levinas’s Hegemonic Identity Politics, Radical Philosophy, and the Unfinished Project of Decolonization” (Nelson ­Maldonado-Torres)Section 4: Posthuman EthicsFrom “The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)”(Jacques Derrida)From “Posthuman Ethics and the Becoming Animal of Emmanuel Levinas” (Mary Bunch)From “Articulating Ecological Ethics and Politics” (Mick Smith) Affirmation versus Vulnerability: On Contemporary ­Ethical Debates (Rosi Braidotti)Index