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Excessive subjectivity : Kant, Hegel, Lacan, and the foundations of ethics / Dominik Finkelde ; translated by Deva Kemmis and Astrid Weigert.
LIBRA BJ1114 .F515513 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finkelde, Dominik, author.
- Series:
- Insurrections
- Insurrections : critical studies in religion, politics, and culture
- Standardized Title:
- Exzessive Subjektivität. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
- Kant, Immanuel.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.
- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
- Lacan, Jacques.
- Ethics.
- Subjectivity.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 340 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Dominik Finkelde rereads the tradition of German idealism for the potential of transformative acts capable of revolutionizing the social order. He engages thinkers typically seen as opposed--Kant, Hegel, and Lacan--to develop the concept of excessive subjectivity, which is characterized by nonconformist acts that reshape the contours of ethical life.
- Contents:
- 1 Excessive Subjectivity and the Paradox of Autonomy as its Prerequisite 17
- 2 Kant: The Split Subject of Ethical Agency 29
- Kant and Kantianism 29
- Of Disposition and Revolution 39
- Disposition as "Subjective Ground" for a "Propensity Toward Evil" 42
- Disposition and Its Spontaneity 44
- The Revolution of Disposition in Ethical Borderline Situations 46
- Form Forming Itself: The Categorical Imperative 49
- Talent as the "Excess" of the Power of Judgment 56
- Kant and "Inferential" Kantianism: McDowell and Brandom 60
- The Forced Choice of Moral Obligation 64
- Kant's Critique of Inferentialism 69
- The Irresponsible Immaturity for Which Responsibility-Needs to Be Taken 82
- Habitus Libertatis: Change of Disposition and Gesture 83
- Kant's Doctrine of Virtue 88
- Ends-Driven Duties of Virtue 90
- 3 Hegel: The Split Ethical Life and the Subject 94
- Hegel vs. Kant? 100
- The Deed as a Breaking Out of Undefined Inferiority 103
- The Revolution of Disposition and Social Space 108
- Hegel's Antigone: The Tragic vs. Tragedy 110
- Antigone's Act 113
- The Tragic and Tragedy in the Context of Knowledge and Truth 118
- The Rationale That Will Have Actualized Itself 122
- Hegel and Conscience 127
- Socrates's Conscience 129
- The Universal and the Particular 136
- Madness and Disasociability of the Human Soul 140
- 4 Lacan: Subjectivity and the Autonominal Force of Lawgiving 148
- Metapsychology and Its Political Dimensions 148
- Kant and Hegel in Lacan's Theory of the Law 155
- Origins: Freud's Pleasure Coordinates of Appellation 159
- The Subject, His Subjectivization, and the Sublime Signifler 164
- Signifiers and the "Force of Law" 181
- Antigone, Rosa Parks, and the "Discourse of the Hysteric" 184
- The Subject's Self-Designation out of Her Void (Lacan on Russell and Frege) 193
- There Is No Metalanguage 200
- Language as Event of the Unconscious 204
- Imperatives 207
- Phantasmatically Fending Off Appellation 212
- "Traversing the Fantasy" 214
- Unrepresented Signifiers 219
- "The Unleashing of the Signifiers" 223
- Validity Without Meaning 228
- On the Paradox of Excessive Authority 232
- "Je Dis Toujours la Vérite!" 241.
- Notes:
- Translated from the German.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231173186
- 0231173180
- OCLC:
- 987764576
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