Throwing the Moral Dice by Cary Wolfe
From deconstruction to feminism to ecological thought, some of today's most influential thinkers consider the challenge that contingent life poses to the broad claims of ethics. In doing so, they reshape the most debated concepts of moral philosophy.-
The Forgiveness to Come
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Punishment and Inclusion
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Fugitive Rousseau
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The Gift of Science
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Technicians of Human Dignity
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Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity
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Kantian Courage
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Foucault's Critical Ethics
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The Dignity Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
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Politics in Captivity
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The Creolizing Subject
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The Mandate of Dignity
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Administering Interpretation
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What Fanon Said
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The Truth of Democracy
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Law and Revolution in South Africa
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Drawing the Line
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Thresholds of Illiteracy
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Creolizing Political Theory
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Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400–1500
Thomas Claviez (Edited By)
Thomas Claviez is Professor for Literary Theory at the University of Bern, where he is responsible for the MA program in World Literature. He is the author of Grenz fälle: Mythos- Ideologie- American Studies (1998) and Aesthetics and Ethics: Otherness and Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from Uncle Tom's Cabin to House Made of Dawn (2008) and the coauthor, with Dietmar Wetzel, of Zur Aktualität von Jacques Rancière (2016). He has published widely on issues of community, recognition, literary theory, and moral philosophy. He is the editor of The Conditions of Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics on the Threshold of the Possible (2013) and of The Common Growl: Towards a Poetics of Precarious Community (2016) and the coeditor of Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature (2006) and of Critique of Authenticity (2019). He is currently working on a monograph with the title A Metonymic Community? Towards a New Poetics of Contingency.
Viola Marchi (Edited By)
Viola Marchi is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern. She studied English and Italian literatures at the University of Pisa and the University of Bern, receiving her PhD in English from the latter in 2019, with a dissertation titled "Fuori Luogo: Community and the Impropriety of the Common." In 2016, with support of the Swiss National Science Foundation, she was a visiting fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. She has published the articles "Ethics, Interrupted: Community and Impersonality in Levinas" (2015) and "The Alienation of the Common: A Look into the 'Authentic' Origin of Community" (2019). She is currently working on her first monograph.
Alain Badiou (Foreword By)
Alain Badiou is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the École Normal Supérieure in Paris and still holds seminars at the Collège International de Philosophie and at the European Graduate School. A philosopher, political activist, and playwright, he has published some of the most original, influential, and by now classic works of contemporary philosophy: Theory of the Subject (1982), Manifesto for Philosophy (1989), Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (1993), Deleuze: The Clamor of Being (1997), and the three installments of his most ambitious work: Being and Event (1988), Logics of the Worlds: Being and Event 2 (2006), and The Immanence of Truths: Being and Event 3, released in French in 2018.
Thomas Claviez is Professor for Literary Theory at the University of Bern, where he is responsible for the MA program in World Literature. He is the author of Grenz fälle: Mythos- Ideologie- American Studies (1998) and Aesthetics and Ethics: Otherness and Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from Uncle Tom's Cabin to House Made of Dawn (2008) and the coauthor, with Dietmar Wetzel, of Zur Aktualität von Jacques Rancière (2016). He has published widely on issues of community, recognition, literary theory, and moral philosophy. He is the editor of The Conditions of Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics on the Threshold of the Possible (2013) and of The Common Growl: Towards a Poetics of Precarious Community (2016) and the coeditor of Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature (2006) and of Critique of Authenticity (2019). He is currently working on a monograph with the title A Metonymic Community? Towards a New Poetics of Contingency.
Viola Marchi (Edited By)
Viola Marchi is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern. She studied English and Italian literatures at the University of Pisa and the University of Bern, receiving her PhD in English from the latter in 2019, with a dissertation titled "Fuori Luogo: Community and the Impropriety of the Common." In 2016, with support of the Swiss National Science Foundation, she was a visiting fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. She has published the articles "Ethics, Interrupted: Community and Impersonality in Levinas" (2015) and "The Alienation of the Common: A Look into the 'Authentic' Origin of Community" (2019). She is currently working on her first monograph.
Alain Badiou (Foreword By)
Alain Badiou is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the École Normal Supérieure in Paris and still holds seminars at the Collège International de Philosophie and at the European Graduate School. A philosopher, political activist, and playwright, he has published some of the most original, influential, and by now classic works of contemporary philosophy: Theory of the Subject (1982), Manifesto for Philosophy (1989), Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (1993), Deleuze: The Clamor of Being (1997), and the three installments of his most ambitious work: Being and Event (1988), Logics of the Worlds: Being and Event 2 (2006), and The Immanence of Truths: Being and Event 3, released in French in 2018.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780823298075 |
| ISBN 10 | 0823298078 |
| Title | Throwing the Moral Dice |
| Author | Thomas Claviez |
| Series | Just Ideas |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press |
| Year published | 2021-12-07 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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