Ethical Subjects in Contemporary Culture

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Dave Boothroyd develops an original perspective on Levinas’ account of the ethical Subject as contingently and empirically embedded in everyday experience. He reads Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Irigaray, Deleuze, Badiou and Nancy alongside Levinas to address ethical issues such as sexual difference, vulnerability, secrecy, communications, suffering, hospitality, friendship, censorship and death. Cover Title Page Imprint Contents Acknowledgements 1. The Subject of the Ethical Turn 2. Empiricism, the Ethical Subject and the Ethics of Hospitality 3. Sexing the Ethical Subject 4. Vulnerability to Violence and Ethical Sensibility 5. The Ethical Subject of New Media Communications 6. Secrecy and the Secret of Ethical Subjectivity 7. Censored Subjects 8. Suffering 9. Hospitality, Friendship and Justice 10. Death, or the End of the Subject Bibliography Index