Ethical subjects in contemporary culture / [electronic resource]
Boothroyd, Dave,author.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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.
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.
Ethics.