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Ethical Humans
Life, Love, Labour, Learning and Loss
Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
- 316 pages
- English
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Ethical Humans
Life, Love, Labour, Learning and Loss
Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
Ă propos de ce livre
Ethical Humans questions how philosophy and social theory can help us to engage the everyday moral realities of living, working, loving, learning and dying in new capitalism. It introduces sociology as an art of living and as a formative tradition of embodied radical eco post-humanism.
Seeking to embody traditions of philosophy and social theory in everyday ethics, this book validates emotions and feelings as sources of knowledge and shows how the denigration of women has gone hand in hand with the denigration of nature. It queries post-structuralist traditions of anti-humanism that, for all their insights into the fragmentation of identities, often sustain a distinction between nature and culture. The author argues that in a crisis of global warming, we have to learn to listen to our bodies as part of nature and draws on Wittgenstein to shape embodied forms of philosophy and social theory that questions theologies that tacitly continue to shape philosophical traditions. In acknowledging our own vulnerabilities, we question the vision of the autonomous and independent rational self that often remains within the terms of dominant white masculinities. This book offers different modes of self-work, drawing on psychoanalysis and embodied post-analytic psychotherapies as part of a decolonising practice questioning Eurocentric colonising modernity. In doing so it challenges, with Simone Weil, Roman notions of power and greatness that have shaped visions of white supremacy and European colonial power and empire.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental ethics, environmental philosophy, social theory and sociology, ethics and philosophy, cultural studies, future studies, gender studies, post-colonial studies, Marxism, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and philosophy and sociology as arts of living.
Foire aux questions
Informations
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Histories, memories and truthfulness
People are born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.Job 5:7Cease to do evil, learn to do good.Isaiah 1:16Seek justice, correct oppression, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.Amos 5:15, 24
Philosophy, social theory and truthfulness
There is another reason, why it seems appropriate to begin with the book with a quotation from St Augustineâs Confessions. And that is, for Wittgenstein, all philosophy, in so far as it is pursued honestly and decently, begins with a confession.
Lying to oneself about oneself, deceiving yourself about the pretence in your own state of will, must have a harmful influence on (oneâs) style; for the result will be that you cannot tell what is genuine in the style and what is falseâŠIf I perform to myself, then itâs this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.1(pp. 366â7)
The fact that life is problematic shows that the shape of your life does not fit into lifeâs mould. So you must change the way you live and, once your life does fit into the mould, what is problematic will disappear.But donât we have the feeling that someone who sees no problem in life is blind to something important, even to the most important thing of all? Donât I feel like saying that a man like that is just living aimlessly â blindly, like a mole, and that if only he could see, he would see the problem.(p. 375)
Wittgenstein, Freud and arts of living
What puzzles us about a dream is not its causality but is significance. We want the kind of explanation which âchanges the aspectâ under which we see the images of a dream, so that they now make sense. Freudâs idea that dreams are wish fulfilments is important because it âpoints to the sort of interpretation that is wantedâ, but it is too general. Some dreams are wish fulfilments â âthe sexual dreams of adults for instanceâ. But it is strange that these are precisely the kind of dreams ignored by Freud.(p. 449)
Freud, like philosophical theorists, had been seduced by the method of science and the âcraving for generalityâ. There is not one type of dream, and neither is there one way to interpret the symbols in a dream. Dream symbols do mean something â âObviously there are certain similarities with languageâ â but to understand them requires not some general theory of dreams, but the kind of multi-faceted skill that is involved, say, in the understanding of a piece of music.
Life, masculinities and everyday ethics
I know quite a number of people here whom I like. I seem to find it more easy to get along with them here than in England. I feel much more often like smiling, e.g. when I walk in the street, or w...
Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1 Histories, memories and truthfulness
- 2 Philosophy, politics and everyday life
- 3 Modernities, differences and becoming human
- 4 Generations, genealogies and authentic subjects
- 5 New capitalism, masculinities, work and character
- 6 Neoliberalism, work, technologies and ethics
- 7 Modernities, masculinities, science and nature
- 8 Modernity, bodies, politics and emotional lives
- 9 Histories, traumas, truths and decolonisings
- 10 Freedom, politics, theologies, ecologies and ethics
- Index