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How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the prevailing order? These acts challenge long-standing hidden or silently tolerated injustices, but as they are unsupported by existing ethical rules they pose a drastic challenge to dominant norms. In Excessive Subjectivity, Dom...
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Columbia University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English German |
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Insurrections : critical studies in religion, politics, and culture
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How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the prevailing order? These acts challenge long-standing hidden or silently tolerated injustices, but as they are unsupported by existing ethical rules they pose a drastic challenge to dominant norms. In Excessive Subjectivity, Dominik Finkelde rereads the tradition of German idealism and finds in it the potential for transformative acts that are capable of revolutionizing the social order. Finkelde's discussion of the meaning and structure of the ethical act meticulously engages thinkers typically treated as opposed--Kant, Hegel, and Lacan--to develop the concept of excessive subjectivity, which is characterized by nonconformist acts that reshape the contours of ethical life. For Kant, the subject is defined by the ethical acts she performs. Hegel interprets Kant's categorical imperative as the ability of an individual's conscience to exceed the existing state of affairs. Lacan emphasizes the transgressive force of unconscious desire on the ethical agent. Through these thinkers Finkelde develops a radical ethics for contemporary times. Integrating perspectives from both analytical and continental philosophy, Excessive Subjectivity is a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the ethical subject. -- |
| Item Description: | Translated from the German. |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 340 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-335) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780231173186 0231173180 |
| Index Number: | BJ1114 |
| CLC: |
B565.59 B516.35 B516.31 |
| Call Number: | B516.31/F499 |
| Contents: | Introduction: On the necessity of the deed -- Excessive subjectivity and the paradox of autonomy as its prerequisite -- Kant: the split subject of ethical agency -- Hegel: the split ethical life and the subject -- Lacan: subjectivity and the autonominal force of lawgiving. |