Maternal ethics and other slave moralities
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Maternal ethics and other slave moralities
Routledge, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-211) and index
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ISBN 9780415912099
Description
In Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities which includes the first extended philosophical discussion of the works of Frederick Douglass, Cynthia Willett puts forward a novel theory of ethical subjectivity that is aimed to counter prevailing pathologies of sexist, racist Eurocentric culture. Weaving together accounts of the self drawn from African-American and European philosophies, psychoanalysis, slave narratives and sociology, Willett interrogates what Hegel locates as the core of the self: the desire for
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ISBN 9780415912105
Description
In Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities which includes the first extended philosophical discussion of the works of Frederick Douglass, Cynthia Willett puts forward a novel theory of ethical subjectivity that is aimed to counter prevailing pathologies of sexist, racist Eurocentric culture. Weaving together accounts of the self drawn from African-American and European philosophies, psychoanalysis, slave narratives and sociology, Willett interrogates what Hegel locates as the core of the self: the desire for
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part One The Sensuality of the Good
- Chapter 1 The Origin of Ethics in Music and Dance
- Chapter 2 Tactile Sociality
- Part Two Correspondences: The Attunement of Self and Other
- Chapter 3 The Greeting
- Chapter 4 The Figure of the Face
- Part Three Dissonance and Social Struggle
- Chapter 5 Hegel's Master Narrative of Freedom and the African American Experience
- Chapter 6 A Slave Narrative of Freedom
- Chapter 7 Spirit
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