Giving an account of oneself
By: Judith Butler.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Self (Philosophy); Ethics.; Conduct of life.
Description: Offers an outline for a new ethical practice - one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject. The author demonstrates how difficult it is to give an account of oneself, and how this lack of self-transparency and narratibility is crucial to an ethical understanding of the human.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An account of oneself; title: Scenes of address; title: Foucaultian subjects; title: Posthegelian queries; title: "Who are you?"; title: Against ethical violence; title: Limits of judgment; title: Psychoanalysis; title: Laplanche and Levinas : the I and the you responsibility; title: Laplanche and Levinas on the primacy of the other; title: Adorno on becoming human; title: Foucault's critical account of himself.