Acknowledgments vii Introduction (Lee Olsen and Brendan Johnston) 1 Section 1: Hospitality and Responsibility for the Other Responsibility for the Other (Emmanuel Levinas) 19 From "Hospitality, Justice, and Responsibility: A Dialogue" (Jacques Derrida) 23 Precarious Life (Judith Butler) 37 Is Autonomy Unethical? Trauma and the Politics of Responsibility (Mari Ruti ) 54 Feminist Reflections on Vulnerability: Disrespect, Obligation, Action (Ewa Plonowska Ziarek) 72 Section 2: States of Exception From "Right of Death and Power over Life" (Michel Foucault) 93 Introduction to Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben 101 Liberal Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Hospitality in the Age of Globalization (Meyda Yegenoglu) 110 Section 3: Decoloniality and Ethics "Sensibility" and "Otherness" in Emmanuel Levinas (Enrique Dussel) 135 From "Globalization, Organization, and the Ethics of Liberation" (Enrique Dussel with Eduardo Ibarra-Colado) 147 On Pluritopic Hermeneutics, Trans-modern Thinking, and Decolonial Philosophy (Madina V. Tlostanova and Walter D. Mignolo) 156 From "Levinas's Hegemonic Identity Politics, Radical Philosophy, and the Unfinished Project of Decolonization" (Nelson Maldonado-Torres) 170 Section 4: Posthuman Ethics From "The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)" (Jacques Derrida) 187 From "Posthuman Ethics and the Becoming Animal of Emmanuel Levinas" (Mary Bunch) 209 From "Articulating Ecological Ethics and Politics" (Mick Smith) 227 Affirmation versus Vulnerability: On Contemporary Ethical Debates (Rosi Braidotti) 248 Index 267