Seductions of Fate: Tragic Subjectivity, Ethics, Politics by Basterra, G.

Seductions of Fate: Tragic Subjectivity, Ethics, Politics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403921710)

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Seductions of Fate: Tragic Subjectivity, Ethics, Politics by Basterra, G.

Seductions of Fate: Tragic Subjectivity, Ethics, Politics

$54.99
Seductions of Fate: Tragic Subjectivity, Ethics, Politics by Basterra, G.

Seductions of Fate: Tragic Subjectivity, Ethics, Politics

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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If the tragic interpretation of experience is still so current, despite its disastrous ethical consequences, it is because it shapes our subjectivity. Instead of contradicting the ideals of autonomy and freedom, a modern subjectivity based on self-victimization in effect enables them. By embracing subjection to an alienating other (the Law, Power) the autonomous subject protects its sameness from the disruption of real people. Seductions of Fate stages a dialogue between this tragic agent of political emancipation and the unconditional ethical demands it seeks to evade.

Author: G. Basterra
ISBN-10: 1403921717
ISBN-13: 9781403921710
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/24/2004
Pages: 215
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.84h x 5.82w x 0.70d
By G. Basterra
By G. Basterra
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Gabriela Basterra is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University and former Director of Program at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. She is the author of The Subject of Freedom: Kant, Levinas.

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