ABSTRACT More than ever before it is clear that suicidology requires a serious re-thinking of its approach to understanding and responding to suicide. This is not simply because disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry and psychology dominate what counts as valid knowledge about suicide. Rather, a serious re-thinking is required because the philosophical roots of suicidology remain taken for granted. This article addresses such a philosophical quandary by arguing that we need to take two steps back before those of us working in critical suicidology proceed any further. I begin by surveying suicidology’s philosophical underpinnings. Drawing on the philosophical works of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Margarite La Caze, I then examine the role of ethics, and its relationship with two such unlikely ethical concepts – wonder and generosity. Finally, I consider what role such ethics might have in providing a new foundation for critical suicidology – a foundation that remains open to change, to difference and unconditional hospitality as means of responding to the painful agency of suicide and its significance in understanding what it means to be human.

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走向批判性自杀学中的奇迹与慷慨伦理

摘要 自杀学比以往任何时候都更清楚，需要认真重新思考其理解和应对自杀的方法。这不仅仅是因为医学、精神病学和心理学等学科主导了关于自杀的有效知识。相反，需要认真重新思考，因为自杀学的哲学根源仍然被认为是理所当然的。这篇文章通过论证在我们这些从事批判性自杀学工作的人继续前进之前需要退后两步来解决这样一个哲学困境。我首先调查自杀学的哲学基础。借鉴米歇尔·福柯、朱迪思·巴特勒和玛格丽特·拉卡兹的哲学著作，我然后研究了伦理的作用，以及它与两个这样不太可能的伦理概念——奇迹和慷慨——的关系。