{"product_id":"giving-an-account-of-oneself-twentieth-anniversary-edition-with-a-new-preface-by-the-author-9781531509972","title":"Giving an Account of Oneself: Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Judith Butler\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ethics \u0026amp; Moral Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A brave book by a courageous thinker.\"--\u003cb\u003eHayden White\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMetahistory\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Hailed when it was first published, \u003ci\u003eGiving an Account of Oneself\u003c\/i\u003e is all the more significant for us now. Butler elegantly executes a double helix of argument that thinks sexuality as dispossession and, at the same time, the ethical demands of this dispossession--against settler-colonial statecraft, against occupation, and toward a political relationality for which we are still fighting.\"--\u003cb\u003eJordy Rosenberg\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eConfessions of the Fox \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA pathbreaking account of ethics beyond the classically imagined subject, reissued with a new preface.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat does it mean to lead a moral life? In their 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 yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Butler\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. They are the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eWho's Afraid of Gender?\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45411327180951,"sku":"9781531509972","price":2079.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781531509972.webp?v=1768583496","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/giving-an-account-of-oneself-twentieth-anniversary-edition-with-a-new-preface-by-the-author-9781531509972","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}