Throwing the Moral Dice

Thomas Claviez (Edited By) Thomas Claviez is Professor for Literary Theory at the University of Bern, where he is responsible for the MA program in World Literature. He is the author of Grenz fälle: Mythos- Ideologie- American Studies (1998) and Aesthetics and Ethics: Otherness and Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from Uncle Tom's Cabin to House Made of Dawn (2008) and the coauthor, with Dietmar Wetzel, of Zur Aktualität von Jacques Rancière (2016). He has published widely on issues of community, recognition, literary theory, and moral philosophy. He is the editor of The Conditions of Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics on the Threshold of the Possible (2013) and of The Common Growl: Towards a Poetics of Precarious Community (2016) and the coeditor of Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature (2006) and of Critique of Authenticity (2019). He is currently working on a monograph with the title A Metonymic Community? Towards a New Poetics of Contingency.Viola Marchi (Edited By) Viola Marchi is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern. She studied English and Italian literatures at the University of Pisa and the University of Bern, receiving her PhD in English from the latter in 2019, with a dissertation titled "Fuori Luogo: Community and the Impropriety of the Common." In 2016, with support of the Swiss National Science Foundation, she was a visiting fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. She has published the articles "Ethics, Interrupted: Community and Impersonality in Levinas" (2015) and "The Alienation of the Common: A Look into the 'Authentic' Origin of Community" (2019). She is currently working on her first monograph.Alain Badiou (Foreword By) Alain Badiou is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the École Normal Supérieure in Paris and still holds seminars at the Collège International de Philosophie and at the European Graduate School. A philosopher, political activist, and playwright, he has published some of the most original, influential, and by now classic works of contemporary philosophy: Theory of the Subject (1982), Manifesto for Philosophy (1989), Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (1993), Deleuze: The Clamor of Being (1997), and the three installments of his most ambitious work: Being and Event (1988), Logics of the Worlds: Being and Event 2 (2006), and The Immanence of Truths: Being and Event 3, released in French in 2018.

• Foreword: Ethics and ContingencyAlain Badiou ixIntroduction" Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics 2.0, Contingency, and DialecticsThomas Claviez and Viola Marchi 1I Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics and/of ContingencyThree Notes on Contingency Today: Stress, Science—and Consolation from the Past?Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht 33Cosmopolitan Ethics as an Ethics of Contingency: Toward a Metonymic CommunityThomas Claviez 45Dumb Luck: Jacques Derrida and the Problem of ContingencyMichael Naas 69The Apophatic Community: Ethics, Contingency, NegationViola Marchi 94II Other Others: Ethics 2.0 and the Problem of the "Unsynthesizable"Commonality versus Individuality: An Ethical Dilemma?Étienne Balibar 127Critique, Power, and the Ethics of AffirmationRosi Braidotti 145The Promise of Practical Philosophy and Institutional InnovationDrucilla Cornell 162Ethics of Circular TimeSlavoj Žižek 182The Road Not Taken: Environmental Ethics, Reciprocity, and Non-Negative NonagencyThomas Claviez 206"There Is No World": Living Life in Deconstruction and Theoretical BiologyCary Wolfe 229Works Cited 251List of Contributors 269Index 273