Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities (Paperback, Reissue)

In Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities Cynthia Willett puts forward a novel theory of ethical subjectivity that counters the pathology 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 recognition.
What a subject experiences as 'social death', 'cultural alienation' or 'spirit murder' according to Willett are problems in the social and psychological dynamics of recognition. A colonized subject suffers from sources of oppression that cannot be fully understood through traditional liberal or Marxist analyses.
Developing her theory of ethical subjectivity, Willett questions the misogynist fantasies projected onto the mother-child relationship, finding instead a sensuality that is repressed in Western culture. She also examines rites of passage into manhood in the work of Frederick Douglass and their relation to the 'master/slave' dialectic. In this compelling analysis Willett illuminates 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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 1995
First published:	1996
Authors:	Cynthia Willett
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	228
Edition:	Reissue
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-91210-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-91210-5
Barcode:	9780415912105

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