Fables of Responsibility
Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics
«“Fables of Responsibility is a tenacious and daring exploration of issues deriving from the inseparable histories of ethics and of fiction. Some famous texts are placed here in an unfamiliar and provocative context: how they speak to the question of responsibility and how they understand freedom. Keenan genuinely insists on reading, on not allowing nuance or complication to be ignored. Yet at the same time he is deeply committed to explaining, providing an outstanding critical discussion of other recent treatments of theory and politics.”—Cynthia Chase, Cornell University»
This is 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. Les mer
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This is 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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Stanford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 268
- ISBN
- 9780804728263
- Utgivelsesår
- 1997
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«“Fables of Responsibility is a tenacious and daring exploration of issues deriving from the inseparable histories of ethics and of fiction. Some famous texts are placed here in an unfamiliar and provocative context: how they speak to the question of responsibility and how they understand freedom. Keenan genuinely insists on reading, on not allowing nuance or complication to be ignored. Yet at the same time he is deeply committed to explaining, providing an outstanding critical discussion of other recent treatments of theory and politics.”—Cynthia Chase, Cornell University»
«“This brilliant and lucid book, impeccably documented, begins with a theory of reading and ends with a stunning analysis of the conditions for political action. On the way it relates deconstructive ethical thinking to literature and politics in an unprecedented manner, illuminating all three.”—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University»