Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity

In <i>Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity</i> 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.