Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index.
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Breaking the obstinacy of being: Levinas's ethics of the face -- The ethics of precarity: Judith Butler's reluctant universalism -- The Lacanian rebuttal:?i?ek, Badiou, and revolutionary politics -- In search of defiant subjects: rebellion in Lacan and Marcuse -- Beyond the impasses: the need for normative limits.
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Levinas and lacan, two giants of contemporary theory, represent schools of thought that seem poles apart. in this major new work, mari ruti charts the ethical terrain between them. even as ruti outlines the major differences between levinas and judith butler on the one hand and lacan, slavoj ̆zĭzek, and alain badiou on the other, she proposes that underneath these differences one can discern a shared concern with the thorny relationship between the singularity of experience and the universality of ethics. -- from back cover.