Abstract
Simon Critchley's <i>Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance</i>
Highlights
For Critchley, modern politics is divided between active and passive nihilisms
Eschewing the jargon of much academic political philosophy, Simon Critchley sets out in Infinitely Demanding to formulate an ethics of political resistance that borrows from his engagements—some better, some worse—with the philosophies of Kant, Marx, Freud, Levinas, Lacan, Badiou, Laclau, and others, while offering prose that proves thankfully less-thaninfinitely demanding for his readers
- 322 PhaenEx call for, it will be charting a third way between these two forms of nihilism in order to “invent” “new political subjectivities ... that call into question the authority and legitimacy of the state” while foreclosing a return and rethinking of previous radical movements
Summary
For Critchley, modern politics is divided between active and passive nihilisms. The passive nihilist attempts a “mystical stillness” and “calm contemplation” in the shadows of contemporary Empire and the light of the society of the spectacle that seems to make any political action useless (Infinitely Demanding 5). Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance.
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