| Author: | Cynthia Willett | ISBN: | 9781317971627 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | December 19, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Cynthia Willett |
| ISBN: | 9781317971627 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | December 19, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
In Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities which includes the first extended philosophical discussion of the works of Frederick Douglass, Cynthia Willett puts forward a novel theory of ethical subjectivity that is aimed to counter prevailing pathologies of sexist, racist Eurocentric culture. Weaving together accounts of the self drawn from African-American and European philosophies, psychoanalysis, slave narratives and sociology, Willett interrogates what Hegel locates as the core of the self: the desire for
In Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities which includes the first extended philosophical discussion of the works of Frederick Douglass, Cynthia Willett puts forward a novel theory of ethical subjectivity that is aimed to counter prevailing pathologies of sexist, racist Eurocentric culture. Weaving together accounts of the self drawn from African-American and European philosophies, psychoanalysis, slave narratives and sociology, Willett interrogates what Hegel locates as the core of the self: the desire for
