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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