Resisting Ethics is a new contribution to an ongoing debate on how the world can be improved. Starting with the notion that resistance and ethics are theoretically and practically intertwined, Schaffer develops a new socially oriented ethics based on the practical experience of resistance and ethics. Borrowing from and extending the ideas of Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu, and using case studies of the Algerian Revolution and the Zapatista rebellion, Schaffer argues that existentialism can give us new insights into how we can and should act ethically in the world. Resisting Ethics is a wide-ranging work and represents a new kind of intervention into issues of social justice and resistance.

SCOTT E. SCHAFFER is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, where he does work in global social theory, resistance, and political and cultural sociology. He serves as Managing Editor of the online Journal of Mundane Behavior and is a member of the Bad Subjects Production Team.

Preface and Acknowledgements Complicity, Ethics and Resistance As Fragile As Glass: Balancing the Individual and the Social Methods, Not Recipes: Rethinking Ethics in (and through) Resistance Turning Ourselves on Our Heads: Hegemony and the Colonized Habitus Dirty Hands and Making the Human: The Algerian Revolution and Ethics of Freedom 'For Everyone, Everything': Social Ethics, Consent and the Zapatistas Toward a Resisting Social Ethics Works Cited Notes