Ethics After Idealism: Theory, Culture, Ethnicity, Reading (Theories of Contemporary Culture)
by Anne Firor Scott Prof of Literature in Trinity Clg of Arts/Sciences Rey Chow, Rey Chow
Category: Art

Recognizing the necessity for a critique of idealism constitutes for Chow an ethics in the postcolonial, postmodern age. In particular, she uses "ethics" to designate the act of making decisions - in this context, decisions of reading - that may not immediately conform with prevalent social mores of idealizing our others but that, nonetheless, enables such others to emerge in their full complexities.