Post-modernism and the ethical subject / edited by Barbara Gabriel and Suzan Ilcan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gabriel, Barbara, 1944-

Ilcan, Suzan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics, Modern--20th century.

Ethics, Modern.

Physical Description:

359 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Postmodernism and the ethical subject

Place of Publication:

Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004.

Summary:

The shock of the modern has given way to global and transnational shifts and cultural displacements. What ethical demands have been created by this and what new models of thinking enable us to meet their challenge? Writing across the disciplines of sociology, literature, film, anthropology, and museology, the contributors examine the way in which radical postmodern shifts around knowledge and value have mobilized new relations between ourselves and others and transformed a range of cultural practices. This volume includes philosophical reflections and essays on museums and memory, visual culture, and relations with the other.

Contents:

"Writing against the Ruins": Towards a Postmodern Ethics of Memory / Barbara Gabriel 3

From Modernity to Postmodernity / Suzan Ilcan 25

Part 2 Spectres of the Modern: Philosophical Reflections

On Being "the Last Kantian in Nazi Germany": Dwelling with Animals after Levinas / David L. Clark 41

The Transject: The Ethical Subject of Postmodernity / Barry Rutland 75

Part 3 Museums and Memory

Salvador Allende and the Construction of a Harmless Icon: Museums and Memory / Leandro Urbina 91

Commemoration/(de)Celebration: Super-Shows and the Decolonization of Canadian Museums, 1967-92 / Ruth Phillips 99

"Into the Heart of Africa": Curatorship, Controversy, and Situated Knowledges / Deborah Burrett 125

Part 4 Visual Culture

The Unbearable Strangeness of Being: Edgar Reitz's film-chronicle Heimat / Barbara Gabriel 149

Devastation of the Hapless Structure: Architecture and Ethics / Phyllis Lambert 203

Beyond the Frame: Ethical Encounters and Morality in Deleuze's Cinematic Theory / Daniel O'Connor 207

Part 5 Relations with the Other

The Marginal Other: Modern Figures and Ethical Dialogues / Suzan Ilcan 227

Changing Health Moralities in the Tropics: Ethics and the Other / Lynne Phillips 254

Part 6 Styles and Genres of the Ethical Subject

Covering Their Familiar Ways with Another Culture: Minnie Aodla Freeman's Life among the Quallunaat and the Ethics of Subjectivity / Bina Freiwald 273

"A Network of Relations": Interdependene in Bronwen Wallace's Talking Lyric / Brenda Carr 302

Memory, Identity, and Redemption: Notes on the Culture of Autobiography / Francesco Loriggio 333.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

077352701X

0773527028

OCLC:

54774527