Ethics After Poststructuralism

<p> The present era of economic devastation legacies of colonization and imperialism climate change and habitat loss calls for a new understanding of ethics. These essays on otherness responsibility and hospitality raise urgent questions. Contributors range from the prominent--including Levinas Michel Foucault Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben--to recent theorists such as Judith Butler Enrique Dussell and Rosi Braidotti. The essays emphasize the always vulnerable status of a radically different Other even as they question what responsibility to that Other might mean.</p>