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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Politics of Ethical Theory -- Chapter 1 Ethics, Politics, Limits -- Chapter 2 Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics as Relation -- Chapter 3 Jacques Derrida: The Im-possibility of Responsibility -- Chapter 4 Jean-Luc Nancy: The Transimmanence of Ethics -- Chapter 5 The Limits of Theory: Ethics, Politics, Practice -- Conclusion: Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This groundbreaking book offers a fresh and innovative perspective on ethics and politics after poststructuralism. Madeleine Fagan argues that the 'ethical' should not be understood as a label; it does not mean 'good' or 'right', and is not an evaluation or guide. Rather, both the ethical and the political are descriptions of the context in which we find ourselves. Fagan offers an account of the inseparability of ethics and politics that challenges existing accounts of poststructuralist ethics and shows the need for a practice-based rethinking of the ethico-political. Drawing on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism puts forward a radical and far-reaching critique of both foundational and non-foundational ethical theory. Key Features. Brings together an exploration of the ethical and political thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy for the first time Provides an advanced introduction to poststructuralist ethical thought in Politics and International Relations Focuses on the practical political implications of poststructuralist thought

This article argues that the Anthropocene produces a paradox when thinking about political mobilization. I show how the knowledge production practices that render the Anthropocene visible and actionable, including planetary boundaries, Earth System Science modeling of earth systems, and geological strata, also circulate a security rationality. This rationality is one that attempts to manage, co-opt, or productively direct processes of becoming, which limits possibilities for mobilization. A lens that assumes political mobilization is a function of increased knowledge, understanding, and evidence contributes to this problem. By starting instead with an understanding of possibilities for mobilization as emerging from social relations, the article highlights the way in which the security rationality circulated by Anthropocene knowledge production risks transforming those social relations into security relations. Netting the planet and the human together through the practices of calculation and representation that make the Anthropocene visible produces a decontextualized, disaggregated, and dispersed subject and so limits possibilities for collective political mobilization.

Contemporary representations of environmental futures often feature apocalyptic scenarios, particularly in film and popular culture. However, these dire warnings have seemingly been ineffective at motivating action on climate change. In response, there has been a call for specifically ethical engagement to provide an alternative means of motivation. This article offers an analysis of the effects of ecological apocalypse narratives on the (re)production of the ethical subject of climate change. The article illustrates the intertextual production of the ethics and apocalypse discourses in order to argue that rather than providing an alternative, the ethical motivation approach in fact (re)produces the assumptions and effects of apocalyptic narratives in a way that sediments a non-relational logic of the ethical subject, in both spatial and temporal terms. Such a logic makes responsive ethical or political engagement with ecological futures very difficult and limits possibilities for thinking progressively about climate change.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Inheriting Deconstruction, Surviving Derrida -- I Future of Deconstruction -- 1 Analytic Philosophy in Another Key: Derrida on Language, Truth and Logic -- 2 The Future of Critical Philosophy and World Politics -- 3 Derrida's Rogues: Islam and the Futures of Deconstruction -- 4 Force [of] Transformation -- II Interrupting the Same -- 5 Derrida's Memory, War and the Politics of Ethics -- 6 The (International) Politics of Friendship: Exemplar, Exemplarity, Exclusion -- 7 Ethical Assassination? Negotiating the (Ir)responsible Decision -- 8 Exploiting the Ambivalence of a Crisis: A Practitioner reads 'Diversity Training' through Homi Bhabha -- III Following/Breaking -- 9 Sartre and Derrida: The Promises of the Subject Chaque fois unique, la fin du monde -- 10 What It Is To Be Many: Subjecthood, Responsibility and Sacrifice in Derrida and Nancy -- 11 'Derrida's Theatre of Survival: Fragmentation, Death and Legacy' -- 12 Derrida vs Habermas Revisited -- Conclusions: The Im/Possibility of Closure -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index