Radical ‘Thinkers W Simon Critchley Infinitely Demanding Ethics of Commitment, Politics of ResistanceINFINITELY DEMANDING—————is ee Contents Introduction: The possibility of commitment a. Nihilism — active and passive b. Motivational deficit c. The argument 1 Demanding approval — a theory of ethical experience a. Ethical experience b. Ethical subjectivity c. Justifying reasons and exciting reasons d. Kant, for example — the fact of reason e. The auto-authentification of the moral law — some contemporary Kantians £ The autonomy orthodoxy and the question of facticity 2 Dividualism — how to build an ethical subject a. Alain Badiou — situated universality b. Knud Ejler Logstrup — the unfulfillable demand c. Emmanuel Levinas — the split subject d. Jacques Lacan ~ the Thingly secrecy of the neighbour 3 The problem of sublimation a. Happiness? b. The tragic-heroic paradigm wawe 27 32 38 42 49 56 63 69 70 73