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The subject and other subjects : on ethical, aesthetic, and political identity

Title
  1. The subject and other subjects : on ethical, aesthetic, and political identity / Tobin Siebers.
Published by
  1. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1998.
Author
  1. Siebers, Tobin.

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Description
  1. xii, 149 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  1. The Subject and Other Subjects offers a theory about the differences among ethical, aesthetic, and political conceptions of identity. While ethics, aesthetics, and politics are frequently confused in both theory and practice, Tobin Siebers argues, they need to be understood as different ways of seeing the world. He examines the concept of identity used by various theoretical schools and pinpoints the central stakes in recent arguments about art and pornography, abortion, cosmopolitanism, ethnocentrism, gender politics, the public sphere, racism, and victim's rights, showing why these arguments have been so ethically and politically unsatisfying.
  2. Along the way he uncovers how thinkers as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, Clifford Geertz, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Francois Lyotard, J. Hillis Miller, Richard Rorty, and Slavoj Zizek "cross the wires" among ethical, aesthetic, and political definitions of the self, at once exposing our basic assumptions about these definitions and beginning the work of reconceiving them.
Subject
  1. Self (Philosophy)
  2. Subject (Philosophy)
  3. Identity (Philosophical concept)
  4. Aesthetics
  5. Ethics
  6. Political science > Philosophy
  7. Postmodernism
  8. Ethics
  9. identity
  10. ethics (philosophy)
  11. Aesthetics
  12. Political science > Philosophy
  13. Postmodernism
  14. Ethik
  15. Identität
  16. Philosophie
  17. Politische Philosophie
  18. Selbst
  19. Subjekt Philosophie
  20. Ästhetik
  21. Identiteit
  22. Subject (filosofie)
  23. Subjekt (Philosophie)
Contents
  1. Introduction: ethics ad nauseam -- What does postmodernism want? Utopia -- Multiculturalism, or the ethics of anti-ethnocentrism -- Reading for character : where it was, I must come to be -- What is there? : a dialogue on obscenity, sexuality, and the sublime -- Politics and peace.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-143) and index.