From the Ethical to Politics

1. Introduction

2. Martin Heidegger – Ethics of the Self
2.1 The Ontological Difference as Difference
2.2 Being and Time
2.2.1 Dasein by Existence in the World
2.2.2 Authenticity via Anxiety
2.2.3 ... as Death
2.2.4 ... in vertical Time
2.2.5 Being in Time
2.3 “Humanism in the extreme case” – an Originary Ethics?
2.4 Beyng as Saying

3. Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Lévinas: Ethics by the Other
3.1 Leaving Heidegger
3.2 Early Affinities: Higher Realism and Ultrastructuralism
3.3 The Ethical Difference before Ontology
3.4 The First Violence: Transcendental Violence via Nihilation
3.5 The Face of the Other
3.6 Responsibility: Relation(s) to the Other
3.6.1 Heteronomy before Autonomy
3.6.2 Faith and Knowledge – the Reasonable
3.6.3 Religion
3.7 Self-Difference in Divine Violence
3.8 Of War and Peace

4. Ernesto Laclau – Democracy without Foundation
4.1 From Philosophy to Political Theory
4.2 The Theory of Hegemony as a Political Ontology
4.2.1 Discourse
4.2.2 Antagonism: A Lumpenproletariat Against the Order of Immanence
4.2.3 Hegemony
4.3 The Secret of the Other as the Necessary fundamentum inconcussum

5. Conclusion

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