Ethics and the Subject

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Karl Simms
Rodopi, 1996/12/31 - 286 ページ
This volume contains nineteen essays -- eighteen here presented for the first time -- exploring the question of subjectivity as seen from an ethical perspective. Part I concerns the phenomenological development of Cartesianism and the concept of narrative identity, with essays addressing Levinas' idea of the Other, Ricoeur's Christianisation of Levinas, and Dennet's concept of folk psychology. Part II concerns the experience of reading ethically, as mediated through genealogy and psychoanalysis. The essays address the discourses of philosophy, psychoanalysis, film and literature, and are informed by Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault and Lacan among others. The volume will interest philosophers and critical theorists. Karl Simms provides comprehensive introductions to each of the parts, making the book accessible to informed general readers with an interest in cultural studies.

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Acknowledgements
9
Jonathan Rée
17
Ordinary Language and its Enigmatic Ground
29
13
35
Indication and the Awakening of Subjectivity
43
The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
53
The Narrative Basis of SelfDevelopment
61
Historical Narrative and the Abstract Subject
77
Two Walks
157
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165
Reflections on the SelfReflexive Signifying Chain
173
Excessive Display of the Human Form in the Horror Film
189
Paradigms of Desire in Pornography
203
Versions of the Feminine Subject in Charlotte Brontës Villette
217
The Embracing Language of Wallace Stevens
227
To create and in creating live a being more intense
237

Narrative Identity in Ricoeurs Oneself as Another
85
Introduction
99
Genealogical Methods
127
Technologies of the Self
139
Looking Up the Adolescent in Freuds Index
147
Defoe and the Psychotic Subject
245
Bibliography
253
Name Index
271
Subject Index
277
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228 ページ - And when she sang, the sea, Whatever self it had, became the self That was her song, for she was the maker. Then we, As we beheld her striding there alone, Knew that there never was a world for her Except the one she sang and, singing, made.
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104 ページ - Genealogical analysis shows that the concept of liberty is an invention of the ruling classes and not fundamental to man's nature or at the root of his attachment to being and truth. What is found at the historical beginning of things is not the inviolable identity of their origin; it is the dissension of other things. It is disparity
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18 ページ - not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end
123 ページ - Ada: Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child! Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart? When last I saw thy young blue eyes they smiled, And then we parted

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