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Ethics and Otherness: An Exploration of Diderot's Conte moral

The philosophical climate of our twentieth-century fin de siÃ ̈cle shares certain intellectual affinities with the tumultuous closing decades of the European Enlightenment. Both periods seem lacking in what used to be called a dominant world view. And yet, each period considered or considers its era to be on the threshold of a new world order. Such times of paradigmatic shifting invariably bring with them certain controversies if not also a heightened polarization of positions. From opposing ends of the theoretical spectrum, conflicting stories of catastrophe and redemption are frequently emitted. The "thinkers of order" (those perceived by their counterparts as the ones still "stuck" in the misguided project of Enlightenment) denounce the threatened or real loss of system, law, and rational order; the most extreme among them decry the breakdown of social and religious values, traditional narratives, individual freedom, and so forth, blaming it on the fractious and immoral appearance of "fringe" groups who submit the will of the center to the desire of the margins.'At the opposite end, postmodem speculators warn that "an anonymous society without a subject" is replacing the self-oriented democracies of yesterday, the societies of high capitalism having exhausted all paradigms modernity had to offer. Indeed, they have adopted "exhaustion" itself as our sole remaining paradigm.2 However, these latter also take comfort in the "death" of the old order whose demise announces the arrival