The Subject and Other Subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity

by Tobin Siebers

The Subject and Other Subjects theorizes the differences among ethical, aesthetic, and political conceptions of identity. When a person is called beautiful, why does it strike us as an objectification? Is a person whom we consider to be an exemplary person still a person, and not an example? Can one person conceive what it means to have the perspective of a community? This study treats these thorny issues in the context of recent debates in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472096737
• ISBN13: 9780472096732
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"