Unbecoming subjects
Subtitle: Judith Butler, moral philosophy, and critical responsibility
By: Annika Thiem.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780823228980; 9780823228997
Subjects: Butler, Judith, -- 1956-; Ethics; Responsibility; Criticism; Poststructuralism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one: Challenges to the subject; title: Subjects in subjection : bodies, desires, and the psychic life of norms; title: Moral subjects and agents of morality; title: Part two: Responsibility; title: Responsibility as response : Levinas and responsibility for others; title: Ambivalent desires of responsibility : Laplanche and psychoanalytic translations; title: Part three: Critique; title: The aporia of critique and the future of moral philosophy; title: Critique and ethics justice as a question.