Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415912105
ISBN-13
9780415912105
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 29th, 1995
Print length
228 Pages
Weight
420 grams
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This analysis uncovers the ways in which maternal subjectivities serve as a critique of instrumental reason, how mothers, blacks and other 'slaves' of history are transforming the repressive culture which, in the West, assumes the name of Reason.
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
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