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Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity

by C. Neill

  • Paperback
  • 272 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

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In this new paperback edition, Calum Neill explores the ideas of Jacques Lacan to present a powerful argument for an approach to ethics which is neither rooted in a traditional morality nor reduced to a relativism, an ethics, that is, which is without ground. However we conceive of ethics, whether by appeal to an exterior or traditional notion of right and wrong, or by appeal to some form of individual virtue or responsibility, it implies some form of agency. Where there is an ethical act, there must be someone acting ethically. Working from this simple premise, this book argues that the manner in which we conceive that 'someone' is the condition of possibility for our conception of ethics and, consequently, our ethical potential. Against the commonplace conception of the modern individual as self-identical, self-aware and self-governing, the author presents a detailed introduction to the Lacanian subject, a conception of the self as anything but self-identical, self-aware and self-governing. The book goes on to show how such a rethinking of the subject necessitates a rethinking of our relation to law, tradition and morality, as well as a rethinking of ethics.
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  • Author

    C. Neill

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Palgrave Macmillan

  • Published

    May 2014

  • Weight

    318g

  • Page Count

    272

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781137412713

  • ISBN-10

    1137412712

  • Eden Code

    4592007

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