Simon Critchley 
Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity [EPUB ebook] 
Essays on Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary French Thought

In
Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity, Simon Critchley takes up three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: What is ethical experience? What can be said of the subject who has this experience? What, if any, is the relation of ethical experience to politics? Through spirited confrontations with major thinkers, such as Lacan, Nancy, Rorty, and, in particular, Levinas and Derrida, Critchley finds answers in a nuanced ‘ethics of finitude’ and defends the political possibilities of deconstruction. Democracy, economics, friendship, and technology are all considered anew in Critchley’s bold excursions on the meaning and value of recent French philosophy.

About the author

Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He also teaches at Tilburg University and the European Graduate School. His many books include Very Little . Almost Nothing; Infinitely Demanding; The Faith of the Faithless; and The Book of Dead Philosophers (which made the New York Times bestseller list). He is series moderator of ‘The Stone’, a philosophy column in the New York Times, to which he is a frequent contributor.