{"product_id":"ethics-16","title":"Ethics","description":"Ethical questions dominate current political and academic agendas. While  government think-tanks ponder the dilemmas of bio-ethics, medical  ethics and professional ethics, respect for human rights and reverence  for the Other have become matters of broad consensus.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Alain  Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French  philosophy, explodes the facile assumptions behind this recent ethical  turn. He shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to  reinforce an ideology of the status quo, and fail to provide a  framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;In  contrast, Badiou summons up an \"ethic of truths\" which is designed both  to sustain and inspire a disciplined, subjective adherence to a  militant cause (be it political or scientific, artistic or romantic),  and to discern a finely demarcated zone of application for the concept  of evil. He defends an effectively super-human integrity over the  respect for merely human rights, asserts a partisan universality over  the negotiation of merely particular interests, and appeals to an  \"immortal\" value beyond the protection of mortal privileges.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57339990966654,"sku":"NW9781781680186","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781781680186.jpg?v=1778697473","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/ethics-16","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}