God and the Other: Ethics and Politics After the Theological Turn. By J. Aaron Simmons. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. Pp. xii + 376. $30.00.

Carrol Clarkson’s chapter wrestles with the contentious question of Coetzee’s relation to the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa of the 1970s and early 1980s, which took its philosophical bearings from Frantz Fanon and found expression in the writings of Steve Biko. Clarkson focuses on the ways in which Coetzee departed from the ideas about writing and resistance that were circulating in his contemporary South Africa, particularly as articulated by novelist Nadine Gordimer. Clarkson discusses two related literary-critical problems: an ethics and politics of representation, and an ethics and politics of address, showing how Coetzee explores a tension between freedom of expression and responsibility to the other. In the slippage from saying to addressing we are led to further thought about modes and sites of consciousness—and hence accountabilities—in the interlocutory contact zones of the post-colony. The chapter invites a sharper appreciation of what a postcolonial philosophy might be.

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Macintyre on identity of ethics and politics

Filozofija i drustvo ◽

10.2298/fid0631029s ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 29-56

Author(s):

Michal Sládecek

Keyword(s):

Political Theory ◽

Critical Review ◽

The State ◽

The Other ◽

Individual Rights ◽

Ethical Life ◽

Other Hand ◽

The One ◽

Ethics And Politics

In first chapters of this article MacIntyre?s view of ethics is analyzed, together with his critics of liberalism as philosophical and political theory, as well as dominant ideological conception. In last chapters MacIntyre?s view of the relation between politics and ethics is considered, along with the critical review of his theoretical positions. Macintyre?s conception is regarded on the one hand as very broad, because the entire morality is identified with ethical life, while on the other hand it is regarded as too narrow since it excludes certain essential aspects of deliberation which refers to the sphere of individual rights, the relations between communities, as well as distribution of goods within the state.

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The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950. By Violet Showers Johnson. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xii, 181 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-253-34752-1.)

Journal of American History ◽

10.2307/25095405 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 94 (4) ◽

pp. 1290-1291

Author(s):

G. A. Levesque

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

West Indians ◽

Indiana University

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Robert C. Williams. The Other Bolsheviks: Lenin and His Critics, 1904–1914. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1986. Pp. 233. $27.50

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/93.4.1091 ◽

1988 ◽

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Indiana University

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Continental Philosophy and Theology

Brill Research Perspectives in Theology ◽

10.1163/24683493-12340003 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1-105

Author(s):

Colby Dickinson

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

Religious Identity ◽

Continental Philosophy ◽

The Other ◽

Middle Ground ◽

Late 20Th Century ◽

Theological Turn ◽

The Face ◽

Secular Society ◽

Comparative Nature

AbstractContinental philosophy underwent a ‘return to religion’ or a ‘theological turn’ in the late 20th Century. And yet any conversation between continental philosophy and theology must begin by addressing the perceived distance between them: that one is concerned with destroying all normative, metaphysical order (continental philosophy’s task) and the other with preserving religious identity and community in the face of an increasingly secular society (theology’s task). Colby Dickinson argues inContinental Philosophy and Theologyrather that perhaps such a tension is constitutive of the nature of order, thinking and representation which typically take dualistic forms and which might be rethought, though not necessarily abolished. Such a shift in perspective even allows one to contemplate this distance as not opting for one side over the other or by striking a middle ground, but as calling for a nondualistic theology that measures the complexity and inherently comparative nature of theological inquiry in order to realign theology’s relationship to continental philosophy entirely.

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