The Ethics of Political Resistance

The Ethics of Political Resistance

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Author / Creator:Finkelstein, David.
Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
Description:1 online resource (249 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Althusser, Louis, -- 1918-1990.
Badiou, Alain.
Deleuze, Gilles, -- 1925-1995.
Althusser, Louis, -- 1918-1990.
Badiou, Alain.
Deleuze, Gilles, -- 1925-1995.
Resistance (Philosophy)
Resistance (Philosophy)
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12543047
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ISBN:9781474447768
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9781474447737
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Summary:What and how should individuals resist in political situations? Chris Henry brings together Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze in order to offer a new idea of political practice He develops a structural ontology that gives rise to non-idealist, non-dogmatic, yet ethical practices of resistance against the return of classical ontological dualities.
Other form:Print version: Finkelstein, David. Ethics of Political Resistance. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2019 9781474447737
Standard no.:9781474447737
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Introduction
  • A note on methodology
  • Notes
  • Chapter 1 Badiou: Being and Failure
  • A que stion of dualities
  • Being resistant
  • Political ontology
  • Presuppositions
  • The truth of mathematics
  • Who resists? Just Some-One
  • The failure of being
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2 Contra Axiomatics: The Persistence of Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze
  • An Althusserian conjuncture
  • Which Althusser?
  • Relative autonomy within unity
  • Philosophical dualisms
  • A very full void
  • Time and persistence
  • The subject as practice
  • No n-dogmatic philosophy?
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3 A Time for Practice
  • Speculative or problematic?
  • Meillassoux's problem with Hume
  • The way the world really works
  • The hope of speculative resistance
  • Ideas and the social formation
  • Time and the syntheses of Ideas
  • An ontology proper to structuralism
  • Philosophy and idealism
  • Notes
  • Chapter 4 Genius and Ethology
  • Deleuze, morality and ethics
  • Ethical mediation
  • The necessity of ethics
  • Genius and the art of life
  • The repetition of genius
  • Mediated genius
  • Notes
  • Conclusion: The Art of Practical Resistance
  • Note
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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