Ethical Subjects in Contemporary Culture

Dave Boothroyd is Senior Lecturer and Director of Cultural Studies, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Research, University of Kent

• 1. The Subject of the ethical turn; 2. Empiricism, the ethical Subject and the ethics of hospitality; 3. Sexing the ethical Subject; 4. Vulnerability to violence and ethical sensibility; 5. The ethical Subject of new media communications; 6. Secrecy and the secret of ethical subjectivity; 7. Censored Subjects; 8. Suffering; 9. Hospitality, friendship and justice; 10. Death, or the end of Subject; Bibliography; Index.

This is a truly superb book. A real pleasure to read, it strikes just the right balance between cutting to the chase and drawing you in, with its elegant prose and lucid formulations. The book immediately situates you within a nexus of problems you recognize as crucial, but haven’t thought your way out of in quite the way that Boothroyd has.