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What does it mean to lead a moral life?In her 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 and grounded in a new sense of the human subject.Butler takes as her starting point one's ability to answer the questions What have I done?and What ought I to do?She shows that these question can be answered only by asking a prior question, Who is this 'I' who is under an obligation to give an account of itself and to act in certain ways?Because I find that I cannot give an account of myself without accounting for the social conditions under which I emerge, ethical reflection requires a turn to social theory.In three powerfully crafted and lucidly written chapters, Butler demonstrates how difficult it is to give an account of oneself, and how this lack of self-transparency and narratibility is crucial to an ethical understanding of the human. In brilliant dialogue with Adorno, Levinas, Foucault, and other thinkers, she eloquently argues the limits, possibilities, and dangers of contemporary ethical thought.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?In this invaluable book, 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 creaturesto create and share an ethics of vulnerability, humility, and ethical responsiveness. Judtith Butler is the Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. The most recent of her books are Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence and Undoing Gender.
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It would be a more accurate summary of the first chapter of Given an Account of Oneself, if Butler changed the chapter title to “Impossibility of an account of oneself”, or “Limits on an account of oneself”. In this book, she critically examined the ans...
评分It would be a more accurate summary of the first chapter of Given an Account of Oneself, if Butler changed the chapter title to “Impossibility of an account of oneself”, or “Limits on an account of oneself”. In this book, she critically examined the ans...
评分It would be a more accurate summary of the first chapter of Given an Account of Oneself, if Butler changed the chapter title to “Impossibility of an account of oneself”, or “Limits on an account of oneself”. In this book, she critically examined the ans...
评分It would be a more accurate summary of the first chapter of Given an Account of Oneself, if Butler changed the chapter title to “Impossibility of an account of oneself”, or “Limits on an account of oneself”. In this book, she critically examined the ans...
评分It would be a more accurate summary of the first chapter of Given an Account of Oneself, if Butler changed the chapter title to “Impossibility of an account of oneself”, or “Limits on an account of oneself”. In this book, she critically examined the ans...
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评分这本书的阅读体验更像是跟随一位经验老到的哲人进行了一场漫长而深入的对话。它没有冗长晦涩的理论堆砌，而是通过一系列精巧的寓言和场景设置，将那些抽象的概念具体化、可感化。我特别喜欢作者处理“时间”的方式。时间在这里不再是线性的流逝，而是像一个多维度的空间，过去、现在和潜在的未来交织缠绕。跟随角色的思绪在不同的时间切片中穿梭，那种感觉既迷失又充满探索的乐趣。作者的文字冷静而克制，却蕴含着一股强大的情感洪流。他从不直接告诉你该感受什么，而是通过对细节的精确捕捉，让你自己去体会那种难以言喻的忧伤或者突如其来的领悟。这本书的魅力在于它的留白，它给了读者足够的空间去填补那些未尽之言，每一次重读都会因为心境的变化而发现新的含义。它不是读完就束之高阁的书，而是那种会时常被翻开，去对照生活中的某些瞬间的书。
评分基本以一个消极的观念来研究个人行为的外来性。
评分基本以一个消极的观念来研究个人行为的外来性。
评分基本以一个消极的观念来研究个人行为的外来性。
评分基本以一个消极的观念来研究个人行为的外来性。
评分基本以一个消极的观念来研究个人行为的外来性。
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