Simon Critchley
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823229734
- eISBN:
- 9780823235186
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823229734.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter confronts contemporary political disappointment with the world and argues that a secular conception of morality is needed to motivate ethical commitment. Drawing on the ethical ...
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This chapter confronts contemporary political disappointment with the world and argues that a secular conception of morality is needed to motivate ethical commitment. Drawing on the ethical philosophies of Alain Badiou, Knud Ejler Løgstrup, and Emmanuel Levinas, the chapter demonstrates how the impossibility of fulfilling ethical demands splits the subject between itself and the impossibility of its responsibility.Less
This chapter confronts contemporary political disappointment with the world and argues that a secular conception of morality is needed to motivate ethical commitment. Drawing on the ethical philosophies of Alain Badiou, Knud Ejler Løgstrup, and Emmanuel Levinas, the chapter demonstrates how the impossibility of fulfilling ethical demands splits the subject between itself and the impossibility of its responsibility.
Simon Critchley
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853239567
- eISBN:
- 9781846314179
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853239567.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter contains a reflection by Simon Critchley regarding how Alain Badiou views ethical experience and what can be said by a subject who has experience in his work. This chapter aims to answer ...
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This chapter contains a reflection by Simon Critchley regarding how Alain Badiou views ethical experience and what can be said by a subject who has experience in his work. This chapter aims to answer a query about his views and his works through understanding Badiou. Cricthley defines the structure of the ethical experience and ethical subject using theories from Kant and Heidegger. Ethical experience is the approval of a demand, a demand that requires approval, and ethical subject is a priori equal to the demand that is placed on it. The reflection continues to relate the structure of ethical experience into three applications using theories from Levinas, Lacan and Badiou. Furthermore, it connects the place of ethics and the logic of the event in Badiou's system.Less
This chapter contains a reflection by Simon Critchley regarding how Alain Badiou views ethical experience and what can be said by a subject who has experience in his work. This chapter aims to answer a query about his views and his works through understanding Badiou. Cricthley defines the structure of the ethical experience and ethical subject using theories from Kant and Heidegger. Ethical experience is the approval of a demand, a demand that requires approval, and ethical subject is a priori equal to the demand that is placed on it. The reflection continues to relate the structure of ethical experience into three applications using theories from Levinas, Lacan and Badiou. Furthermore, it connects the place of ethics and the logic of the event in Badiou's system.
Donna Jowett
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823222063
- eISBN:
- 9780823235605
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823222063.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter examines the so-called mauvaise conscience and necessary sadness in relation to ethical experience. It explores what Emmanuel Levinas called mauvaise ...
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This chapter examines the so-called mauvaise conscience and necessary sadness in relation to ethical experience. It explores what Emmanuel Levinas called mauvaise conscience experience, which was also emphasized in Jacques Derrida's Aporias and The Gift of Death. Both philosophers have suggested that ethical responsibility opens people to a certain sorrow that is not only endured but also affirmed. This chapter explains the processes involved in the affirmation of the necessary sadness.Less
This chapter examines the so-called mauvaise conscience and necessary sadness in relation to ethical experience. It explores what Emmanuel Levinas called mauvaise conscience experience, which was also emphasized in Jacques Derrida's Aporias and The Gift of Death. Both philosophers have suggested that ethical responsibility opens people to a certain sorrow that is not only endured but also affirmed. This chapter explains the processes involved in the affirmation of the necessary sadness.
J.M. Bernstein
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853239659
- eISBN:
- 9781846314087
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853239659.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter depicts Lyotard and Levinas's theories to connect or disconnect traumatic experience with those of ethical experience. It utilizes Lyotard's take on Emmanuel Levinas's thoughts, an ...
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This chapter depicts Lyotard and Levinas's theories to connect or disconnect traumatic experience with those of ethical experience. It utilizes Lyotard's take on Emmanuel Levinas's thoughts, an examination of Lyotard's overview of The Differend, and an analysis of Lyotard's Heidegger and the ‘Jews’ to attain the answer that differentiates trauma and ethics to define the Holocaust.Less
This chapter depicts Lyotard and Levinas's theories to connect or disconnect traumatic experience with those of ethical experience. It utilizes Lyotard's take on Emmanuel Levinas's thoughts, an examination of Lyotard's overview of The Differend, and an analysis of Lyotard's Heidegger and the ‘Jews’ to attain the answer that differentiates trauma and ethics to define the Holocaust.
