By Kelly Oliver

ISBN-10: 0816636273

ISBN-13: 9780816636273

ISBN-10: 0816636281

ISBN-13: 9780816636280

 Challenging the elemental guiding principle of the multicultural movement-that social struggles turning upon race, gender, and sexuality are struggles for recognition-this paintings deals a strong critique of present conceptions of id and subjectivity in line with Hegelian notions of popularity. The author’s severe engagement with significant texts of up to date philosophy prepares the best way for a hugely unique notion of ethics according to witnessing.

Central to this undertaking is Oliver’s competition that the call for for reputation is a symptom of the pathology of oppression that perpetuates subject-object and same-different hierarchies. whereas theorists around the disciplines of the arts and social sciences concentration their learn on multiculturalism round the fight for acceptance, Oliver argues that the particular texts and survivors’ money owed from the aftermath of the Holocaust and slavery are testimonials to a pathos that's “beyond recognition.”  

Oliver lines a few of the issues of the popularity version of subjective identification to a specific proposal of imaginative and prescient presupposed in theories of popularity and misrecognition. Contesting the assumption of an objectifying gaze, she reformulates imaginative and prescient as a loving glance that enables connection instead of necessitates alienation. as a substitute, Oliver develops a thought of witnessing subjectivity. She means that the concept of witnessing, with its double which means as both eyewitness or bearing witness to the unseen, is extra promising than acceptance for describing the onset and sustenance of subjectivity. Subjectivity is born out of and sustained via the method of witnessing-the risk of handle and response-which places moral duties at its heart.

 

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