Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics: 1st (First) Edition

by Rosi Braidotti

This major new book offers a highly original account of ethical and political subjectivity in contemporary culture. It makes a strong case for a non-unitary or nomadic conception of the subject, in opposition to the claims of ideologies such as conservatism, liberal individualism and techno-capitalism.Braidotti takes a bold stand against moral universalism, while offering a vigorous defence of nomadic ethics against the charges of relativism and nihilism. She calls for a new form of ethical accountability that takes "Life" as the subject, not the object, of enquiry. This ethics is presented as a fundamental reconfiguration of our being in the world and it calls for more conceptual creativity in the production of worldviews that can better enable us to behave ethically in a technologically and globally mediated world. The nomadic ethical subject negotiates successfully the complex tension between the multiplicity of political forces on the one hand and the sustained commitment to emancipatory politics on the other.Transpositions provides an intellectually rich guide to the leading critical debates of our time and will be of great interest to scholars and students throughout the humanities and social sciences.

Genres: Philosophy, Feminism, Theory, Politics, Academic, Sociology, Feminist Theory

Paperback

First published January 27, 2006

Reviews

[Hannah Feng · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dense and repetitive but I think Rosi Braidotti is a genius visionary. A bar:

“Making friends with the impersonal necessity of death is an ethical way of installing oneself in life as a transient, slightly wounded visitor. We build our house on the crack, so to speak. We live to recover from the shocking awareness that this game is over before it started. The proximity to death suspends life, not in transcendence, but rather in the radical immanence of just a life, here and now, for as long as we can and as much as we take.”

[vio ✨]

braidotti you continue to amaze me. but you also take so long to get to your point and keep repeating the same words over and over again 😭