postmodernity, feminism, and the politics of radical democracy
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska
- Publish Year
- 2001
- Shelfmark
- B2097 - B
- Thesaurus
- theorieën, filosofie, feminisme, etniciteit, seksualiteit, ethiek, democratie
- Description
- What kind of challenge does sexual and racial difference pose for postmodern ethics? What is the relation between ethical obligation and feminist interpretations of embodiment, passion, and eros? Ziarek argues we cannot address such questions, without putting into dialogue discourses that have hitherto been segregated: postmodern ethics, feminism, race theory, and the idea of radical democracy. Addressing diverse thinkers—including Emmanuel Levinas, Patricia Williams, Jean-François Lyotard, bell hooks, Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Julia Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray—the author proposes a new conception of ethics, an ethics of dissensus that rethinks the relation between freedom and obligation in a double context of embodiment and antagonism.