The non-sovereign self, responsibility, and otherness : Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, and Stanley Cavell on moral philosophy and political agency /

In times of globalization, critiques of sovereignty have become a pervasive feature of political theory. This book investigates how forms of political association and the responsibilities we have for others could be informed by non-sovereign concepts of the self. Placing the reader in dialogue with...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kelz, Rosine Judith, 1981- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Series:	International political theory.
Subjects:	Self (Philosophy) Agent (Philosophy) Ethics. Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975. Butler, Judith, > 1956- Cavell, Stanley, > 1926-2018. PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. PHILOSOPHY / Political. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Arendt On The Acting, Thinking And Moral Self
3. The Situated And Embodied Self: Butler And Cavell On Subjectivity, Language And Finitude
4. Otherness And An Ethics Of Responsibility
5. Responsibility Beyond The Human?
6. Re-Imagining The Political
Bibliography
Index.