Introduction: The failure of ethics in the West

The trouble with post-Kantian ethics : Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillassoux on the vicissitudes of ethical absolutes

Phenomenology, ethics, and the Other : rediscovering the possibility of ethical absolutes with Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas

The problem of the Other : Levinas and Schelling on the reversibility of ethical demand

Interlude: Sympathy for the devil : the tyranny of heaven

Don't give up, don't give in! Jacques Lacan and the ethics of psychoanalysis

Carving a space of freedom : Michael Foucault and the ethics of resistance

Conclusion: The ethics of resistance : a backward-turning relation.