Book reviews / Comptes rendus 147 pledges to the other than self' (247). Not only must the subject face up to its own testimony of errors; it must also must listen to the testimony of the Other, being affected by the Other' s story in empathy and love. Drawing from Kristeva and Nussbaum, Kearney suggests an ethics of empathy and compassion to combat the current postmodern ethics of disinterested play.Poetics olImagining is a rich resource for the philosophy of imagination and postmodern philosophy. It also provides an excellent summary of Kearney's philosophy in general. Kearney admits that the book in its present form is a "tentative work in progress towards aresolution that will -given the enigmatic and unfathomable nature of imagining -never be reached" (preface). The book, for instance, provides only an outline of ethics, and remains silent on matters such as political justice and the body. But the book is a model of the imagination at work, exposing itself to correction and remaining open to the Other. Poetics olImagining brilliantly combines the thought of Kearney into a single volume, making it essential reading for postmodern ethics and cultural studies.
Snowed by his affirmation of certain model natural sciences, popular naturalist readings of Nietzsche, which assert that he is “engaged in giving causal explanations of various human phenomena,” fail to account for his critique of causality. This critique is at the heart of his critiques of metaphysics and natural science, for causality is the mechanism by which metaphysical concepts are generated and nature is transformed into a system of universal laws. I explain this connection by reference to his Aristotelian interpretation of causality and examine the radical entailments of this critique.
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