Examines the three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: what is ethical experience? what can be said of the subject who has this experience? and what, if any, is the relation of ethical experience to politics? These questions are approached by way of a critical confrontation with a number of major thinkers, including Lacan, Genet, Blanchot, Nancy, Rorty and, in particular, Levinas and Derrida. The author offers a critical reconstruction of Levinas's notion of ethical experience and, questioning the religious pietism and political conservatism of the dominant interpretation of Levinas's work, develops an ethic of finitude which opens on to an experience of humour and the comic.
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Simon Critchley is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Essex and Director of the Centre for Theoretical Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He is author of The Ethics of Deconstruction and Very Little . . . Almost Nothing.
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Simon Critchley is Chair of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York and part-time Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. He lives in Brooklyn.
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