Giving an Account of Oneself

What does it mean to lead a moral life?In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice-one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject.Butler takes as her starting point one'...

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Main Author Butler, Judith
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Fordham University Press 2005
Edition1
Subjects
Conduct of life
Ethics
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY
Self
Self (Philosophy)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABBREVIATIONS ONE: An Account of Oneself TWO: Against Ethical Violence THREE: Responsibility NOTES INDEX
  • Title Page Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1: An Account of Oneself Chapter 2: Against Ethical Violence Chapter 3: Responsibility Notes Index Frontmatter
  • Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. An Account of Oneself -- Scenes of Address -- Foucaultian Subjects -- Post-Hegelian Queries -- ''Who Are You?'' -- 2. Against Ethical Violence -- Limits of Judgment -- Psychoanalysis -- The "I" and the "You -- 3. Responsibility -- Laplanche and Levinas: The Primacy of the Other -- Adorno on Becoming Human -- Foucault's Critical Account of Himself -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W
  • Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ONE An Account of Oneself -- TWO Against Ethical Violence -- THREE Responsibility -- NOTES -- INDEX