001477508 000__ 05662nam\a22008655i\4500 001477508 001__ 1477508 001477508 003__ DE-B1597 001477508 005__ 20231026034813.0 001477508 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477508 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477508 008__ 230103t20092009nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477508 020__ $$a9780823237685 001477508 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823237685$$2doi 001477508 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)554916 001477508 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1099051000 001477508 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477508 0410_ $$aeng 001477508 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477508 072_7 $$aPHI005000$$2bisacsh 001477508 08204 $$a170/.42$$222 001477508 084__ $$aCI 6350$$qSEPA$$2rvk$$0(DE-625)rvk/18513: 001477508 1001_ $$aButler, Judith, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477508 24510 $$aGiving an Account of Oneself /$$cJudith Butler. 001477508 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2009] 001477508 264_4 $$c©2009 001477508 300__ $$a1 online resource (160 p.) 001477508 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477508 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477508 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477508 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477508 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tAbbreviations -- $$t1. An Account of Oneself -- $$t2. Against Ethical Violence -- $$t3. Responsibility -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex 001477508 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477508 520__ $$aWhat does it mean to lead a moral life?In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice-one 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 "What have I done?" and "What ought I to do?" She shows that these question can be answered only by asking a prior question, "Who is this 'I' who is under an obligation to give an account of itself and to act in certain ways?" Because I find that I cannot give an account of myself without accounting for the social conditions under which I emerge, ethical reflection requires a turn to social theory.In three powerfully crafted and lucidly written chapters, Butler demonstrates how difficult it is to give an account of oneself, and how this lack of self-transparency and narratibility is crucial to an ethical understanding of the human. In brilliant dialogue with Adorno, Levinas, Foucault, and other thinkers, she eloquently argues the limits, possibilities, and dangers of contemporary ethical thought.Butler offers a critique of the moral self, arguing that the transparent, rational, and continuous ethical subject is an impossible construct that seeks to deny the specificity of what it is to be human. We can know ourselves only incompletely, and only in relation to a broader social world that has always preceded us and already shaped us in ways we cannot grasp. If inevitably we are partially opaque to ourselves, how can giving an account of ourselves define the ethical act? And doesn't an ethical system that holds us impossibly accountable for full self-knowledge and self-consistency inflict a kind of psychic violence, leading to a culture of self-beratement and cruelty? How does the turn to social theory offer us a chance to understand the specifically social character of our own unknowingness about ourselves?In this invaluable book, by recasting ethics as a project in which being ethical means becoming critical of norms under which we are asked to act, but which we can never fully choose, Butler illuminates what it means for us as "fallible creatures" to create and share an ethics of vulnerability, humility, and ethical responsiveness. 001477508 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477508 546__ $$aIn English. 001477508 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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