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 terror...

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