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

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.

List of contents

Introduction: On the Necessity of the Deed
1. Excessive Subjectivity and the Paradox of Autonomy as Its Prerequisite
2. Kant: The Split Subject of Ethical Agency
3. Hegel: The Split Ethical Life and the Subject
4. Lacan: Subjectivity and the Autonominal Force of Lawgiving
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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.

Product details

• Authors: Dominik Finkelde
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780231173186
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17318-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture; Insurrections: Critical Studie; Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Idealism, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis