{"product_id":"throwing-the-moral-dice-thomas-claviez-9780823298082","title":"Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics and the Problem of Contingency","description":"\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: ﾉtienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Thomas Claviez, Drucilla Cornell, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Viola Marchi, Michael Naas, Cary Wolfe, Slavoj Zizek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Claviez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823298086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823298082\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Thomas Claviez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044804456703,"sku":"9780823298082","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dd10e432-edff-48b4-9f57-e20ed0e9a757.jpg?v=1684974988","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/throwing-the-moral-dice-thomas-claviez-9780823298082","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}