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

by Dominik Finkelde

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231173180
• ISBN13: 9780231173186
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"