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Author Siebers, Tobin

Title The subject and other subjects : on ethical, aesthetic, and political identity / Tobin Siebers

Publisher Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 149 pages) : illustrations
Subject Self (Philosophy)
Subject (Philosophy)
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Aesthetics
Ethics
Political science -- Philosophy
Postmodernism
Medical Sub. Ethics
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-143) and index
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The Subject and Other Subjects offers a theory about the differences among ethical, aesthetic, and political conceptions of identity. While ethics, aesthetics, and politics are frequently confused in both theory and practice, Tobin Siebers argues, they need to be understood as different ways of seeing the world. He examines the concept of identity used by various theoretical schools and pinpoints the central stakes in recent arguments about art and pornography, abortion, cosmopolitanism, ethnocentrism, gender politics, the public sphere, racism, and victim's rights, showing why these arguments have been so ethically and politically unsatisfying
Along the way he uncovers how thinkers as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, Clifford Geertz, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Francois Lyotard, J. Hillis Miller, Richard Rorty, and Slavoj Zizek "cross the wires" among ethical, aesthetic, and political definitions of the self, at once exposing our basic assumptions about these definitions and beginning the work of reconceiving them
English
Contents Introduction: ethics ad nauseam -- What does postmodernism want? Utopia -- Multiculturalism, or the ethics of anti-ethnocentrism -- Reading for character : where it was, I must come to be -- What is there? : a dialogue on obscenity, sexuality, and the sublime -- Politics and peace
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Continues Print version: Siebers, Tobin. Subject and other subjects. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1998 9780472096732