Rent Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance

Synopsis

pstrongA new political ethics that confronts the injustices of liberal democracy./strong/pThe clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley’s influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics, emInfinitely Demanding/em identifies a massive political disappointment at the heart of liberal democracy. Arguing that what is called for is an ethics of commitment that can inform a radical politics, Critchley considers the possibility of political subjectivity and action after Marx and Marxism, taking in the work of Kant, Levinas, Badiou and Lacan. emInfinitely Demanding/em culminates in an argument for anarchism as an ethical practice and a remotivating means of political organization.

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