Giving an Account of Oneself

Name: Giving an Account of Oneself
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ISBN: 9780823225040

ISBN-10: 0823225046

ISBN-13: 9780823225040

Edition: 4th 2005

Authors: Judith Butler

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What does it mean to lead a moral life? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers aprovocative outline for a new ethical practiceone responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject. Butler takes as her starting point one's ability to answer the questions ocirc;What have I done?ouml; and ocirc;What ought I to do?ouml; She shows that these question can be answered only by asking a prior question, ocirc;Who is this aelig;I' who is under an obligation to give an account of itself and to act in certain ways?ouml; Because I find that I cannot give an account of myself without accounting for the social conditions under…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 10/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is presently the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities.