Seductions of Fate: Tragic Subjectivity, Ethics, Politics - Couverture souple

Basterra, G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1349515558 ISBN 13 : 9781349515554

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Synopsis

If the tragic interpretation of experience is still so current, despite its disastrous ethical consequences, it is because it shapes our subjectivity. Instead of contradicting the ideals of autonomy and freedom, a modern subjectivity based on self-victimization in effect enables them. By embracing subjection to an alienating other (the Law, Power) the autonomous subject protects its sameness from the disruption of real people. Seductions of Fate stages a dialogue between this tragic agent of political emancipation and the unconditional ethical demands it seeks to evade.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gabriela Basterra is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University and former Director of Program at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. She is the author of The Subject of Freedom: Kant, Levinas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1349515558
• ISBN 13: 9781349515554
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 225
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