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

by Dominik Finkelde

Book Overview

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...

• 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"