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Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
By: Simon Critchley Publisher: Verso Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Verso Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 176 Publication Date: September 01, 2008
Product Description: A new political ethics that confronts the injustices of political democracy.
Infinitely Demanding is the clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley's influential views on philosophy, ethics and politics. Part diagnosis of the times, part theoretical analysis of the impasses and possibilities of ethics and politics, part manifesto, Infinitely Demanding identifies a massive political disappointment at the heart of liberal democracy. Arguing that what is called for is an ethics of commitment that can inform a radical politics, it culminates in an argument for anarchism as an ethical practice and a re-motivating means of political organization.
Demanding Read Simon Critchley's small book constitutes a serious engagement with the contemporary political/philosophical context, particularly his engagement with with certain traditions within the Left. I do however take issue with his political topology and categorization of political tendencies. All the same, he offers food for thought, and is a most welcome contribution to the debates on the current political conjuncture.
Challenging and worthwhile read This short book is divided into four chapters and one appendix. The first three chapters lay out the theoretical foundations. The fourth chapter draws together the previous three chapters, and the appendix shows the application of the author's arguments in terms of contemporary US politics. The first three chapters are intellectually challenging, especially for those lacking a reasonable knowledge of philosophy and to a lesser extent psychology. Nonetheless, the book is worth reading for the fourth chapter and appendix alone---these too are challenging, but in a different way, since they question fundamental political and social assumptions and provide ideas for how those who feel that humanity is not well served by global capitalism might go forward.
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