Throwing the Moral Dice : : Ethics and the Problem of Contingency / / ed. by Thomas Claviez, Viola Marchi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Badiou, Alain,; Balibar, Étienne,; Braidotti, Rosi,; Claviez, Thomas,; Cornell, Drucilla,; Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich,; Marchi, Viola,; Naas, Michael,; Wolfe, Cary,; Žižek, Slavoj,
• HerausgeberIn: Claviez, Thomas,; Marchi, Viola,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Just Ideas
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2 b/w illustrations

More 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. 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?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.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.Contributors: Étienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Thomas Claviez, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Viola Marchi, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe, Slavoj Žižek

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Ethics and Contingency -- Introduction. Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics 2.0, Contingency, and Dialectics -- I Throwing the Moral Dice Ethics and/of Contingency -- Three Notes on Contingency Today Stress, Science—and Consolation from the Past? -- Cosmopolitan Ethics as an Ethics of Contingency Toward a Metonymic Community -- Dumb Luck Jacques Derrida and the Problem of Contingency -- The Apophatic Community Ethics, Contingency, Negation -- II Other Others Ethics 2.0 and the Problem of the “Unsynthesizable” -- Commonality versus Individuality An Ethical Dilemma? -- Critique, Power, and the Ethics of Affirmation -- The Promise of Practical Philosophy and Institutional Innovation -- Ethics of Circular Time -- The Road Not Taken Environmental Ethics, Reciprocity, and Non-Negative Nonagency -- “There Is No World” Living Life in Deconstruction and Theoretical Biology -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index