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BOOK REVIEWS/269 In the second chapter, the author relies upon the work of Patricia Williams and Luce Irigaray to describe further the interplay between freedom and obligation. This feminist theory is a necessary complement to previous postmodern philosophy since, arguably, Foucaultâs work proclaims the absolute value of resistance without sufficiently theorizing responsibility, while Levinasâs work decribes in an abstract manner the absolute value of obligation without showing how it may play out in concrete political contexts. Ziarek consequently thinks through how Levinasâs ethics of obligation towards the absolute Other can translate into a more pragmatic âperformative politics of race and rightsâ that takes into account the significance of emotions, desires, and other aspects of our embodiment to the practice of democracy. The following two chapters use Lyotardâs concept of the différend to address the problem of irreconcilable differences within and among political communities. According to Lyotard, the différend occurs when social norms cannot be negotiated because of the absence of agreed-upon values and laws. In such disputes, âone sideâs legitimacy does not imply the otherâs lack of legitimacyâ (The Differend, xi). At the same time, the différend describes a situation where the victim is deprived of the ability
Comparative Literature – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2002
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