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The ethics of resistance : tyranny of the absolute
- Title
- The ethics of resistance : tyranny of the absolute / Drew M. Dalton.
- Author
- Dalton, Drew M., 1978-
- Publication
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- xii, 154 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Opening a new debate on ethical reasoning after Kant, Drew Dalton addresses the problem of the absolute in ethical and political thought. Attacking the foundation of European philosophical morality, he critiques the idea that in order for ethical judgement to have any real power, it must attempt to discover and affirm some conception of the absolute good. Without rejecting the essential role the absolute plays within ethical reasoning, Dalton interrogates the assumed value of the absolute. Dalton brings some of the most influential contemporary philosophical traditions into dialogue with each other: speculative realists like Badiou and Meillassoux; phenomenologists, including Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas; German Idealists, especially Kant and Schelling; psychoanalysts Freud and Lacan; and finally, post-structuralists, specifically Foucault, Ranciere, and Zizek. The relevance of these thinkers to concrete socio-political problems is shown through reflections on the Holocaust, suicide bombings, the rise of neo-liberalism and neo-nationalism, as well as rampant consumerism and racism. This book re-defines ethical reasoning as that which refuses absolutes and resists what Milton's devil in Paradise Lost called the "tyranny of heaven." Against traditional ethical reasoning, Dalton sees evil not as a moral failure, but as the result of an all too easy assent to the absolute; an assent which can only be countered through active resistance. For Dalton, resistance to the absolute is the sole channel through which the good can be defined.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-149) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-9681
- ISBN
- 9781350042032
- 135004203X
- OCLC
- 1031415054
- Author
- Dalton, Drew M., 1978- author.
- Title
- The ethics of resistance : tyranny of the absolute / Drew M. Dalton.
- Publisher
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-149) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-9681