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Excessive Subjectivity: Kant, Hegel, Lacan, and the Foundations of Ethics

by Dominik Finkelde
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780231173186
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press
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  • Pages: 360
  • Original Price: USD 75.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 635 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Criticism, Movements / Deconstruction, and Ethics & Moral Philosophy

How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the prevailing order? These acts challenge long-standing hidden or silently tolerated injustices, but as they are unsupported by existing ethical rules they pose a drastic challenge to dominant norms. In Excessive Subjectivity, Dominik Finkelde rereads the tradition of German idealism and finds in it the potential for transformative acts that are capable of revolutionizing the social order.

Finkelde's discussion of the meaning and structure of the ethical act meticulously engages thinkers typically treated 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. For Kant, the subject is defined by the ethical acts she performs. Hegel interprets Kant's categorical imperative as the ability of an individual's conscience to exceed the existing state of affairs. Lacan emphasizes the transgressive force of unconscious desire on the ethical agent. Through these thinkers Finkelde develops a radical ethics for contemporary times. Integrating perspectives from both analytical and continental philosophy, Excessive Subjectivity is a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the ethical subject.

Dominik Finkelde is professor of contemporary political philosophy and epistemology at the Munich School of Philosophy.

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