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- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 277 pages)
- Summary
- "More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency seems to have become today the very horizon of our everyday life. Often used as a synonym for the precariousness of working conditions under neoliberalism, for the unknown threats posed by terrorism, or for the uncertain future of the planet itself, contingency needs to be calculated and controlled in the name of the protection of life. The overcoming of contingency is not only called upon to justify questionable mechanisms of political control; it serves as a central legitimating factor for Enlightenment itself. In this volume, nine major philosophers and theorists address a range of questions around contingency and moral philosophy. How can we rethink contingency in its creative aspects, outside the dominant rhetoric of risk and dangerous exposure? What is the status of contingency-as the unnecessary and law-defying-in or for ethics? What would an alternative "ethics of contingency"-one that does not simply attempt to sublate it out of existence-look like? The volume tackles the problem contingency has always posed to both ethical theory and dialectics: that of difference itself, in the difficult mediation between the particular and the universal, same and other, the contingent singularity of the event and the necessary generality of the norms and laws. From deconstruction to feminism to ecological thought, some of today's most influential thinkers reshape many of the most debated concepts in moral philosophy: difference, agency, community, and life itself. Contributors: Étienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Thomas Claviez, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Viola Marchi, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe, Slavoj Žižek"--
- Series Statement
- Just ideas
- Uniform Title
- Throwing the moral dice (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- ISBN
- 9780823298099
- LCCN
- 2021047106
- OCLC
- ssj0002579251
- Title
Throwing the moral dice [electronic resource] : ethics and the problem of contingency / Thomas Claviez and Viola Marchi, editors ; foreword by Alain Badiou.
- Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, 2022.
- Edition
First edition.
- Series
Just ideas
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Claviez, Thomas.
Marchi, Viola.