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's ability to answer the questions What have I done? and What ought I to do? She shows that these question can be answered only by asking a prior question, Who is this 'I' who is under an obligation to give an account of itself and to act in certain ways? Because I find that I cannot give an account of myself without accounting for the social conditio…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8232-2503-3
- EAN: 9780823225033
- Produktnummer: 1370380
- Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 179 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.4 cm x D1.7 cm 363 g
- Gewicht: 363
Über den Autor
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of The Psychic Life of Power (1997), Antigone's Claim (2000), Giving anAccount of Oneself (2005), Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism(2012), and Senses of the Subject (2015). She works in the fields of feminist and queer theory, European philosophy, social theory, and ethics.
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