Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and PoliticsPhilippe van Haute, Peg Birmingham Peeters Publishers, 1995 - 153 pagina's This book reflects on the problematic relation of ethics to politics in our 'democratic' era. If democracy implies the loss of an ultimate foundation for both ethics and political action, how can it be defended against its (ultra-nationalist, fundamentalist, ...) critics. Are there reasons for being a 'democrat' and what does it mean to be so or to act 'democratically'. Does this merely imply strict obedience to certain procedures that we call 'democratic' or does a democratic society ask for a democratic attitude or ethos. If so, how can this ethos be defined and grounded. All contributions to this volume articulate answers to these questions or to problems intrinsically related to them (i.e. what is the status of the law when it loses ultimate foundation). They do so by reflecting on the work of some important contemporary French philosophers: Lefort, Lyotard, Derrida, Levinas, Lacan, etc |
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 1 |
How to Keep Silent after Lyotard | 7 |
Original Ethics and the History of Being 331 | 31 |
The Inner Articulation of Origin and the Radical Problem | 52 |
Between Ethics and Politics in the Thought of Lefort | 74 |
Democracy and Human Rights | 89 |
Is Derrida a Private Ironist | 108 |
Hannah Arendts Dismissal of the Ethical | 131 |
Biobibliographical information on the authors 154 | |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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