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From: "Dirk Bahlo" <Dirk.Bahlo-AT-rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Date:          Tue, 23 Jan 1996 01:09:58 +0000
Subject: Poststructuralism & Ethics


To All,

We've  heard much about "doing" that is not "doing in a conservative 
sense", "effects" that are not "effects in a traditional sense" and 
"actions" that are "actions in adifferent sense". Obviously ethics 
has got to do with acting, and therefore the question of action and 
effect can not be neglected by post-structuralist ethics.

On the other hand, following MF, the main effects in society are not 
provoked by acting individuals but by "enonces", that influence each 
other in the field of discourse and for these effects  noone can be held 
responsible.Not only what is uttered and what not, even what happens 
and what not seems to be dependent on anonymous "enonces" and the 
order of discourse.

So my questions are: "Is there any notion of 'responsibility' in ps and 
on what basis?" and "What are the characteristics of the alternative 
concepts of 'acting' and 'effect' (other than being different)?" 
(most of the glorious effects of ps that were mentioned yet are 
intra-academic and accompanied by no relevant social change at all).

Dirk Bahlo. Bochum. Germany.

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