Excessive Subjectivity : : Kant, Hegel, Lacan, and the Foundations of Ethics / / Dominik Finkelde.

How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the prevailing order? These acts challenge long-standing hidden or silently tolerated injustices, but as they are unsupported by existing ethical rules they pose a drastic challenge to dominant norms. In Excessive Subjectivity, Dom...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • INTRODUCTION: ON THE NECESSITY OF THE DEED
  • 1. EXCESSIVE SUBJECTIVITY AND THE PARADOX OF AUTONOMY AS ITS PREREQUISITE
  • 2. KANT: THE SPLIT SUBJECT OF ETHICAL AGENCY
  • 3. HEGEL: THE SPLIT ETHICAL LIFE AND THE SUBJECT
  • 4. LACAN: SUBJECTIVITY AND THE AUTONOMINAL FORCE OF LAWGIVING
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index