Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance by Simon Critchley |
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The "death of man", the "end of history" and even philosophy are strong and troubling currents running through contemporary debate. We seem to be confronted with such an "end" at every turning. Yet following Nietzsche's notorious heralding of the "death of god", philosophy's response to the issue of finitude has been found wanting. This volume accounts for this lack in philosophy through an exploration of Blanchot's conception of literature, Levinas' notion of the "il y a", Cavell's reading of romanticism and the presence of death in Beckett's work. These themes are drawn together not in an attempt to restore meaning in the face of finitude, but to enable us to see the meaningless of life as an achievement, the achievement of the ordinary or the everyday.
The "death of man", the "end of history" and even philosophy are strong and troubling currents running through contemporary debate. We seem to be confronted with such an "end" at every turning. Yet following Nietzsche's notorious heralding of the "death of god", philosophy's response to the issue of finitude has been found wanting. This volume accounts for this lack in philosophy through an exploration of Blanchot's conception of literature, Levinas' notion of the "il y a", Cavell's reading of romanticism and the presence of death in Beckett's work. These themes are drawn together not in an attempt to restore meaning in the face of finitude, but to enable us to see the meaningless of life as an achievement, the achievement of the ordinary or the everyday.
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