“This brilliant and lucid book, impeccably documented, begins with a theory of reading and ends with a stunning analysis of the conditions for political action. On the way it relates deconstructive ethical thinking to literature and politics in an unprecedented manner, illuminating all three. The readings of Marx, Foucault, and Aesop would themselves be enough to recommend Fables of Responsibility.”
– Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University