LEADER 04573nam 22007335 450 001 9910781907303321 005 20211005021907.0 010 $a0-8232-3523-8 010 $a0-8232-4677-9 010 $a1-283-29714-0 010 $a9786613297143 010 $a0-8232-3768-0 010 $a0-8232-2505-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823237685 035 $a(CKB)1000000000520853 035 $a(EBL)476639 035 $a(OCoLC)191818345 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000279910 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11221845 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279910 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10268283 035 $a(PQKB)11099926 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021261 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239404 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14894 035 $a(DE-B1597)554916 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823237685 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476639 035 $a(OCoLC)1099051000 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704190 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476639 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000520853 100 $a20200723h20092009 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGiving an Account of Oneself /$fJudith P. Butler 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2009] 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (160 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8232-2504-6 311 0 $a0-8232-2503-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 137-146) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$t1. An Account of Oneself --$t2. Against Ethical Violence --$t3. Responsibility --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $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. 606 $aConduct of life 606 $aEthics 606 $aSelf (Philosophy) 615 0$aConduct of life. 615 0$aEthics. 615 0$aSelf (Philosophy) 676 $a170/.42 686 $aCI 6350$qSEPA$2rvk 700 $aButler$b Judith P.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0175620 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781907303321 996 $aGiving an account of oneself$915977 997 $aUNINA