{"product_id":"throwing-the-moral-dice-ethics-and-the-problem-of-contingency-paperback","title":"Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics and the Problem of Contingency - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Claviez\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eViola Marchi\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore 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 terrorism, or for the uncertain future of the planet itself, contingency needs to be calculated and controlled in the name of the protection of life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe overcoming of contingency is not only called upon to justify questionable mechanisms of political control; it serves as a central legitimating factor for Enlightenment itself. In this volume, nine major philosophers and theorists address a range of questions around contingency and moral philosophy. How can we rethink contingency in its creative aspects, outside the dominant rhetoric of risk and dangerous exposure? What is the status of contingency--as the unnecessary and law-defying--in or for ethics? What would an alternative \"ethics of contingency\"--one that does not simply attempt to sublate it out of existence--look like? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume tackles the problem contingency has always posed to both ethical theory and dialectics: that of difference itself, in the difficult mediation between the particular and the universal, same and other, the contingent singularity of the event and the necessary generality of the norms and laws. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom deconstruction to feminism to ecological thought, some of today's most influential thinkers reshape many of the most debated concepts in moral philosophy: difference, agency, community, and life itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e: Étienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Thomas Claviez, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Viola Marchi, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe, Slavoj Zizek\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Act 'as' the world wants, or act 'as if' the will of the ethical subject were worth the world? We can, I think, escape the trap of this alternative by considering some of the confusion surrounding the notion of 'necessity.' . . . All in all, everything is necessary, except the necessity of this necessariness.\"--\u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/b\u003e, from the Foreword \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"We live in uncertainty, and we are not afraid to admit it, but can we say we \u003ci\u003eknow\u003c\/i\u003e that uncertainty--know it well enough to act responsibly in it? This volume boldly reinterprets uncertainty as a symptom of social exclusion, a product of the otherness outside community. Not content to identify justice with the incalculable, Claviez and Marchi explore the mystery of how mere contingencies can give rise to real ethical imperatives. The volume makes an unusual and powerful claim on all serious readers.\"--\u003cb\u003eBruce Robbins\u003c\/b\u003e, Columbia University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThrowing the Moral Dice\u003c\/i\u003e treats the question of ethics, and thus of community, as intrinsically bound up with contingency in a new and inspiring manner. The scholarship that went into the chapters is erudite and remarkable.\"--\u003cb\u003eElisabeth Weber\u003c\/b\u003e, University of California, Santa Barbara \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This book invites us to listen to contingency without judgment and fear by showing us how to disentangle subjecthood from responsibility for agency.\"--\u003cb\u003eTimothy C. Campbell\u003c\/b\u003e, Cornell University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContingency 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 terrorism, or for the uncertain future of the planet itself, contingency needs to be calculated and controlled in the name of the protection of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut contingency is also a philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility. From deconstruction to feminism to ecological thought, some of today's most influential thinkers come together in this book to rethink contingency in its relation to ethics, reshaping many of the most debated concepts in moral philosophy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e: Étienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Thomas Claviez, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Viola Marchi, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe, Slavoj Zizek \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Claviez\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Bern. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eViola Marchi\u003c\/b\u003e is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Claviez (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThomas Claviez \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor for Literary Theory at the University of Bern, where he is responsible for the MA program in World Literature. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eGrenz fälle: Mythos- Ideologie- American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) and \u003ci\u003eAesthetics and Ethics: Otherness and Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from Uncle Tom's Cabin to House Made of Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) and the coauthor, with Dietmar Wetzel, of \u003ci\u003eZur Aktualität von Jacques Rancière\u003c\/i\u003e (2016). He has published widely on issues of community, recognition, literary theory, and moral philosophy. He is the editor of The \u003ci\u003eConditions of Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics on the Threshold of the Possible\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and of \u003ci\u003eThe Common Growl: Towards a Poetics of Precarious Community\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(2006) and of \u003ci\u003eCritique of Authenticity\u003c\/i\u003e (2019). He is currently working on a monograph with the title \u003ci\u003eA Metonymic Community? Towards a New Poetics of Contingency\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eViola Marchi (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eViola\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eMarchi\u003c\/b\u003e is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern. She studied English and Italian literatures at the University of Pisa and the University of Bern, receiving her PhD in English from the latter in 2019, with a dissertation titled \"Fuori Luogo: Community and the Impropriety of the Common.\" In 2016, with support of the Swiss National Science Foundation, she was a visiting fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. She has published the articles \"Ethics, Interrupted: Community and Impersonality in Levinas\" (2015) and \"The Alienation of the Common: A Look into the 'Authentic' Origin of Community\" (2019). She is currently working on her first monograph. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou (Foreword By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the École Normal Supérieure in Paris and still holds seminars at the Collège International de Philosophie and at the European Graduate School. A philosopher, political activist, and playwright, he has published some of the most original, influential, and by now classic works of contemporary philosophy: \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Subject\u003c\/i\u003e (1982), \u003ci\u003eManifesto for Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eEthics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil \u003c\/i\u003e(1993), Deleuze: \u003ci\u003eThe Clamor of Being \u003c\/i\u003e(1997), and the three installments of his most ambitious work: \u003ci\u003e Being and Event\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), \u003ci\u003e Logics of the Worlds: Being and Event 2\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), and \u003ci\u003eThe Immanence of Truths: Being and Event 3\u003c\/i\u003e, released in French in 2018. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 07, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51786542055712,"sku":"9780823298082","price":66.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c5cc15a346585a615cc3f3982ee5d8e7.webp?v=1780636091","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/throwing-the-moral-dice-ethics-and-the-problem-of-contingency-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}