Ethics and the SubjectKarl Simms 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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... ( fact of ) the discourse shows it . Obligation is originary : as soon as the relation of the face - to - face is established by the presence of the Other , one must act towards that Other , even if it is only to do nothing . This showing ...
... ( fact of ) the discourse shows it . Obligation is originary : as soon as the relation of the face - to - face is established by the presence of the Other , one must act towards that Other , even if it is only to do nothing . This showing ...
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... fact , that is to say the material world , the materialist world , the world of the Enlightenment ; perhaps the western and imperialist and protestant and capitalist ethnocentric and phallocentric technological world as well - a world ...
... fact , that is to say the material world , the materialist world , the world of the Enlightenment ; perhaps the western and imperialist and protestant and capitalist ethnocentric and phallocentric technological world as well - a world ...
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... fact subjectivity is where the world is . Human emotions like hatred , love , fear or sympathy are ways of the world , not fugitives holed up in an isolated sanctuary . At last , Sartre says , we are liberated from the tyrannical idea ...
... fact subjectivity is where the world is . Human emotions like hatred , love , fear or sympathy are ways of the world , not fugitives holed up in an isolated sanctuary . At last , Sartre says , we are liberated from the tyrannical idea ...
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... fact it could be argued that the supreme achievement of twentieth- century philosophy has been the discrediting of the idea of world - pictures . In the first place , one may note some contradictions in it : for instance , whilst it ...
... fact it could be argued that the supreme achievement of twentieth- century philosophy has been the discrediting of the idea of world - pictures . In the first place , one may note some contradictions in it : for instance , whilst it ...
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... facts as pictures stand to the objects they depict . 2 " This is the way I have travelled : Idealism singles men out from the world as unique , solipsism singles me alone out , and at last I see that I too belong with the rest of the ...
... facts as pictures stand to the objects they depict . 2 " This is the way I have travelled : Idealism singles men out from the world as unique , solipsism singles me alone out , and at last I see that I too belong with the rest of the ...
Contents
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Ordinary Language and its Enigmatic Ground | 29 |
Robin Durie | 43 |
The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas | 53 |
The Narrative Basis of SelfDevelopment | 61 |
Historical Narrative and the Abstract Subject | 77 |
Narrative Identity in Ricoeurs Oneself as Another | 85 |
Introduction | 99 |
vi | 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 |
Defoe and the Psychotic Subject | 245 |
Genealogical Methods | 127 |
Technologies of the Self | 139 |
Looking Up the Adolescent in Freuds Index | 147 |
Two Walks | 157 |
Bibliography | 253 |
Name Index | 271 |
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Page 18 - Life is 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. Is it not the task of the novelist to convey this varying, this unknown and uncircumscribed spirit, whatever aberration or complexity it may display, with as little mixture of the alien and external as possible...
Page 23 - The world as I found it", I should also have therein to report on my body and say which members obey my will and which do not, etc. This then would be a method of isolating the subject or rather of showing that in an important sense there is no subject: that is to say, of it alone in this book mention could not be made.