{"product_id":"throwing-the-moral-dice-ethics-and-the-problem-of-contingency-hardback-9780823298075","title":"Throwing the Moral Dice; Ethics and the Problem of Contingency (Hardback) 9780823298075","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThrowing the Moral Dice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEthics and the Problem of Contingency\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThomas Claviez (Edited by), Viola Marchi (Edited by), Alain Badiou (Foreword by), Étienne Balibar (Contributions by), Rosi Braidotti (Contributions by), Thomas Claviez (Contributions by), Drucilla Cornell (Contributions by), Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Contributions by), Viola Marchi (Contributions by), Michael Naas (Contributions by), Cary Wolfe (Contributions by), Slavoj Žižek (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823298075\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 December 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 2 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.602 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very horizon of everyday life. Often used as a synonym for the precariousness of working conditions under neoliberalism, for the unknown threats posed by terrorism, or for the uncertain future of the planet itself, contingency needs to be calculated and controlled in the name of the protection of life. \u003cbr\u003e The overcoming of contingency is not only called upon to justify questionable mechanisms of political control; it serves as a central legitimating factor for Enlightenment itself. In this volume, nine major philosophers and theorists address a range of questions around contingency and moral philosophy. How can we rethink contingency in its creative aspects, outside the dominant rhetoric of risk and dangerous exposure? What is the status of contingency—as the unnecessary and law-defying—in or for ethics? What would an alternative \"ethics of contingency\"—one that does not simply attempt to sublate it out of existence—look like?\u003cbr\u003e The volume tackles the problem contingency has always posed to both ethical theory and dialectics: that of difference itself, in the difficult mediation between the particular and the universal, same and other, the contingent singularity of the event and the necessary generality of the norms and laws.\u003cbr\u003e From deconstruction to feminism to ecological thought, some of today's most influential thinkers reshape many of the most debated concepts in moral philosophy: difference, agency, community, and life itself.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e: Étienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Thomas Claviez, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Viola Marchi, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe, Slavoj Žižek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword\u003c\/b\u003e: Ethics and Contingency\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/i\u003e   ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\" Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics 2.0, Contingency, and Dialectics\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas Claviez and Viola Marchi\u003c\/i\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eI Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics and\/of Contingency\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Three Notes on Contingency Today: Stress, Science—and Consolation from the Past?\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHans Ulrich Gumbrecht\u003c\/i\u003e   33\u003cbr\u003e Cosmopolitan Ethics as an Ethics of Contingency: Toward a Metonymic Community\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas Claviez\u003c\/i\u003e   45\u003cbr\u003e Dumb Luck: Jacques Derrida and the Problem of Contingency\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Naas \u003c\/i\u003e  69\u003cbr\u003e The Apophatic Community: Ethics, Contingency, Negation\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eViola Marchi \u003c\/i\u003e  94\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eII Other Others: Ethics 2.0 and the Problem of the \"Unsynthesizable\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Commonality versus Individuality: An Ethical Dilemma?\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eÉtienne Balibar \u003c\/i\u003e  127\u003cbr\u003e Critique, Power, and the Ethics of Affirmation\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRosi Braidotti \u003c\/i\u003e  145\u003cbr\u003e The Promise of Practical Philosophy and Institutional Innovation\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDrucilla Cornell \u003c\/i\u003e  162\u003cbr\u003e Ethics of Circular Time\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSlavoj Žižek \u003c\/i\u003e  182\u003cbr\u003e The Road Not Taken: Environmental Ethics, Reciprocity, and Non-Negative Nonagency\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas Claviez\u003c\/i\u003e   206\u003cbr\u003e \"There Is No World\": Living Life in Deconstruction and Theoretical Biology\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCary Wolfe \u003c\/i\u003e  229\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/i\u003e   251\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e   269\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   273\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580465443096,"sku":"9780823298075","price":104.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/throwing-the-moral-dice-ethics-and-the-problem-of-contingency-hardback-9780823298075","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}