Resisting Ethics [Paperback]

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.Preface and Acknowledgements Complicity, Ethics and Resistance As Fragile As Glass: Balancing the Individual and the Social Methods, Not Recipes: Rethinking Ethics in (and through) Resistance Turning Ourselves on Our Heads: Hegemony and the Colonized Habitus Dirty Hands and Making the Human: The Algerian Revolution and Ethics of Freedom 'For Everyone, Everything': Social Ethics, Consent and the Zapatistas Toward a Resisting Social Ethics Works Cited Notes

Resisting Ethics is an eloquent reassertion of the Western tradition of radical democracy in the face of the disintegrative forces of neo-liberal modernity. Grounding his ideas on a provocative combination of social theorists, Schaffer elaborates particularly on Bourdieu's 'margin of liberty' to develop an important new model of ethical action. - Dr. Bridget Fowler, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Swimming against the stream of much recent social theory, Scott Schaffer urges a return to ethics-one informed by practices of resistance to oppression. In a series of bold moves through Sartre and Fanon to the Zapatistas, Schaffer weaves theory and history into his call for an ethics of freedom. As it should, this book will provoke debate. But thló„