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Hallward, Ethics. xxxv. Badiou, Ethics. 11. Rancière, Disagreement, passim. Badiou, Ethics. 43. Quoted in Enrique Dussel, Etica de la liberación en la edad de la globalización y de la exclusión. 520. Dussel, Etica de la liberación. 527. Rozitchner, Moral burguesa y revolución. 9. Ibid. 19. Rancière, Malaise dans l’esthétique. 145. Levinas, quoted in Dussel, Liberación latinoamericana y Emmanuel Levinas. 7. Works Cited Avelar, Idelber. ” SubStance 91 (2000): 80–103. Badiou, Alain. Ethics. An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, trans.
Zupancic, The Shortest Shadow. 137–138. Works Cited Althusser, Louis. ” Lenin and Philosophy, trans. Ben Brewster. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1971. Badiou, Alain. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, trans. Peter Hallward. London: Verso, 2001. ———. L’éthique: essai sur la conscience du mal. Caen: Nous, 2003. ———. Saint Paul: La fondation de l’universalisme. Paris: PUF/Les essays du Collège International de Philosophie, 1997. ———. Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism, trans.
One must take the risk of acting without the guarantee of success, expanding the space of political action beyond the safe realm of institutions and laws. This agent is not always militant and definitely not heroic, but rather uncertain and vulnerable. 34 Gabriela Basterra Hence the relation between ethics and politics is often understood as a deadlock. For how can the radical responsibility demanded by the ethical break (as Levinas describes it) coexist with the social rules that enable political life, whose reliance on the autonomous subject may result in avoiding responsibility?