Fables of responsibility : aberrations and predicaments in ethics and politics
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書誌事項
Fables of responsibility : aberrations and predicaments in ethics and politics
(Meridian : crossing aesthetics / Werner Hamacher & David E. Wellbery, editors)
Stanford University Press, 1997
- : cloth : alk. paper
- : paper : alk. paper
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-243) and index
内容説明・目次
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: cloth : alk. paper ISBN 9780804728263
内容説明
This book offers an analysis of the ways a linked set of ethico-political concepts-responsibility, rights, freedom, equality, and justice-might be re-thought, not simply jettisoned or reactively defended, in view of the linguistic deconstruction of their underlying principle, the individual human subject. In a series of readings of contemporary thinkers (notably Foucault and Derrida) and their philosophical antecedents (Marx, Nietzsche, Sade), the author argues that an encounter with the difficulties of reading (literary) language, precisely what resists the immediate comprehension or mastery of a subject, enables in turn a new thought of rights and responsibility.
What literature teaches us about politics is that the absence of foundations, whether in the world or in the subject, far from being its downfall, is its very condition of possibility: because a foundation or a final resolution is lacking, we have politics and ethics and their predicaments. Like the reading of a text, which is never quite done, any responsibility worthy of the name cannot rest in the good conscience of its certain accomplishment; likewise, the assertion of rights can never be circumscribed or guaranteed-hence the ongoing necessity of the ethical and the political.
The book is driven by a sense that literary and theoretical questions, and the ideas or concepts they appeal to or provoke, play a critical role in the way we think about and experience politics, but that literary critics and theorists do far too little to understand those links or make them matter outside a very restricted sphere. The author seeks to harness this specialized discourse in order to consider what ethical and political thinking might learn from literature and its theorists.
目次
- Introduction: literature and democracy
- 1. Left to our own devices: on the impossibility of justice
- Part I. Fables: 2. Examples of responsibility: Aesop, with philosophy
- 3. Freedom, the law of another fable: Sade's insurrection
- Part II. Rhetoric: 4. The point is to (ex)change it: reading capital rhetorically
- 5. The 'paradox' of knowledge and power: Foucault on the bias
- Conclusion: no man's land - ideology, between ethics and politics
- Notes
- Index.
- 巻冊次
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: paper : alk. paper ISBN 9780804728270
内容説明
This book offers an analysis of the ways a linked set of ethico-political concepts-responsibility, rights, freedom, equality, and justice-might be re-thought, not simply jettisoned or reactively defended, in view of the linguistic deconstruction of their underlying principle, the individual human subject. In a series of readings of contemporary thinkers (notably Foucault and Derrida) and their philosophical antecedents (Marx, Nietzsche, Sade), the author argues that an encounter with the difficulties of reading (literary) language, precisely what resists the immediate comprehension or mastery of a subject, enables in turn a new thought of rights and responsibility. What literature teaches us about politics is that the absence of foundations, whether in the world or in the subject, far from being its downfall, is its very condition of possibility: because a foundation or a final resolution is lacking, we have politics and ethics and their predicaments.
Like the reading of a text, which is never quite done, any responsibility worthy of the name cannot rest in the good conscience of its certain accomplishment; likewise, the assertion of rights can never be circumscribed or guaranteed-hence the ongoing necessity of the ethical and the political. The book is driven by a sense that literary and theoretical questions, and the ideas or concepts they appeal to or provoke, play a critical role in the way we think about and experience politics, but that literary critics and theorists do far too little to understand those links or make them matter outside a very restricted sphere. The author seeks to harness this specialized discourse in order to consider what ethical and political thinking might learn from literature and its theorists.
目次
- Introduction: literature and democracy
- 1. Left to our own devices: on the impossibility of justice
- Part I. Fables: 2. Examples of responsibility: Aesop, with philosophy
- 3. Freedom, the law of another fable: Sade's insurrection
- Part II. Rhetoric: 4. The point is to (ex)change it: reading capital rhetorically
- 5. The 'paradox' of knowledge and power: Foucault on the bias
- Conclusion: no man's land - ideology, between ethics and politics
- Notes
- Index.
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