Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of EvilAlain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil. |
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absolute affirmation Alain Badiou Altogether-Other anti-philosophical bio-ethics communication conception concerns consensus consistency counted Critique cultural decision Derrida differences Donner la mort Ecole Normale Supérieure element Emmanuel Lévinas engagement essential ethic of truths ethical ideology event example existence extermination fact fidelity figure Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak genuine Hannah Arendt human animal human rights idea identify identity Immanuel Kant immigrants Immortal infinite interest Irigaray Jacques Jacques Derrida Jacques Lacan Jacques-Alain Miller Kant L'Ethique L'Etre et l'événement Lacan Lévinas logic Luce Irigaray mathematical matter means militant moral multiple-being Nazism not-known ontology opinions Paris particular perseverance philosophy Plato political sequence possible precisely prescription principle psychoanalysis pure multiplicity question radical Evil reality relation Revolution Saint Paul Séminaire sense Seuil simply simulacrum singular situation Slavoj Žižek some-one Spivak subject of truth subject-language theory things thought tion trans transcendent Translated truth-procedures truth-process unnameable void Žižek