Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of ResistancePart diagnosis of the times, part theoretical analysis of the impasses and possibilities of ethics and politics, part manifesto, this title identifies a political disappointment at the heart of liberal democracy. It culminates in an argument for anarchism as an ethical practice and a re-motivating means of political organization. |
Contents
The possibility of commitment | 1 |
The argument | 8 |
Demanding approval a theory of ethical experience | 14 |
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Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance Simon Critchley Limited preview - 2014 |
Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance Simon Critchley Limited preview - 2013 |
Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance Simon Critchley Limited preview - 2014 |
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