Dialectics Beyond Dialectics

Małgorzata Kowalska is professor of Philosophy at the University of Białystok (Poland). She specializes in French philosophy and moral and political philosophy. Her field of interest comprises Sartre, Levinas and other French contemporary thinkers, the idea of democracy and that of Europe.

• Contents: Spectres of totality – Criticism of the idea of totality as insufficient – Dangerous, impossible totality and identity – Aspects of difference: division and dispersion – Divided and dispersed subject, devided and dispersed history – Dialectics as the way of thinking totality and difference – Modernity and postmodernity – Dialectics and «postdialectics» – Bataille, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Aron, Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, Derrida.