Ethical Subjects in Contemporary Culture

Review This is a truly superb book. A real pleasure to read, it strikes just the right balance between cutting to the chase and drawing you in, with its elegant prose and lucid formulations. The book immediately situates you within a nexus of problems you recognize as crucial, but haven’t thought your way out of in quite the way that Boothroyd has., Tina Chanter, Professor and Head of the School of Humanities at Kingston University Product Description 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. From the Inside Flap 'This is a truly superb book. A real pleasure to read, it strikes just the right balance between cutting to the chase and drawing you in, with its elegant prose and lucid formulations. The book immediately situates you within a nexus of problems you recognize as crucial, but haven’t thought your way out of in quite the way that Boothroyd has.'Tina Chanter, Professor and Head of the School of Humanities at Kingston UniversityEthics in the material world of everyday lifeDave Boothroyd develops an original perspective on Levinas’ account of the ethical Subject as contingently and empirically embedded in everyday experience. He achieves this through a reading of several texts by Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Irigaray, Deleuze, Badiou and Nancy alongside those of Levinas, whilst addressing a range of ethical subjects – such as sexual difference, vulnerability, secrecy, communications, suffering, hospitality, friendship, censorship and death.The result is a novel approach to the manifestation of ethical demand within cultural life and an assessment of the prospects for an ethico-political resolution of the theory/practice divide. It will appeal to anyone interested in the ethical dimensions of culture and cultural life.Dave Boothroyd is Director of Cultural Studies at the University of Kent. He is a founding co-editor of the open-access international journal for cultural studies and cultural theory, Culture Machine. From the Back Cover 'This is a truly superb book. A real pleasure to read, it strikes just the right balance between cutting to the chase and drawing you in, with its elegant prose and lucid formulations. The book immediately situates you within a nexus of problems you recognize as crucial, but haven’t thought your way out of in quite the way that Boothroyd has.' Tina Chanter, Professor and Head of the School of Humanities at Kingston University Ethics in the material world of everyday life Dave Boothroyd develops an original perspective on Levinas’ account of the ethical Subject as contingently and empirically embedded in everyday experience. He achieves this through a reading of several texts by Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Irigaray, Deleuze, Badiou and Nancy alongside those of Levinas, whilst addressing a range of ethical subjects – such as sexual difference, vulnerability, secrecy, communications, suffering, hospitality, friendship, censorship and death. The result is a novel approach to the manifestation of ethical demand within cultural life and an assessment of the prospects for an ethico-political resolution of the theory/practice divide. It will appeal to anyone interested in the ethical dimensions of culture and cultural life. Dave Boothroyd is Director of Cultural Studies at the University of Kent. He is a founding co-editor of the open-access international journal for cultural studies and cultural theory, Culture Machine. About the Author Dave Boothroyd is Senior Lecturer and Director of Cultural Studies, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Research, University