Resisting Ethics

Schaffer, S.

Resisting Ethics is a new contribution to an ongoing debate on how the world can be improved. Starting with the notion that resistance and ethics are theoretically and practically intertwined, Schaffer develops a new socially oriented ethics based on the practical experience of resistance and ethics. Borrowing from and extending the ideas of Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu, and using case studies of the Algerian Revolution and the Zapatista rebellion, Schaffer argues that existentialism can give us new insights into how we can and should act ethically in the world. Resisting Ethics is a wide-ranging work and represents a new kind of intervention into issues of social justice and resistance.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2004-09-14

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349528080

DOI: 10.1057/9781403980151

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 326