The Ethics of Resistance : Tyranny of the Absolute (Hardcover)

INTRODUCTION: Sympathy for the Devil: On the Ethics of Acquiescence PART ONE: THE TYRANNY OF HEAVEN CHAPTER 1: The Trouble with Post-Kantian Ethical Philosophy: Alan Badiou and Quentin Meillassoux on the Vicissitudes of Ethical Absolutes CHAPTER 2: Phenomenology, Ethics, and the Other: Rediscovering the Possibility of an Ethical Absolute with Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas CHAPTER 3: Problems with the Other: Levinas and Schelling on the Weight of the Infinite and the Reversibility of Ethical Demand INTERLUDE: The Tyranny of Heaven: On the Necessity of an Ethics of Resistance PART TWO: TOWARDS AN ETHICS OF RESISTANCE CHAPTER 4: Don't Give up, Don't Give in! Jacques Lacan and Ethics of Psychoanalysis CHAPTER 5: Carving a Space of Freedom: Michel Foucault on the Ethical Power of Resistance CONCLUSION: The Ethics of Demonic Resistance Bibliography Index