Ethics and the Subject

PART I: FROM PHENOMENOLOGY TO NARRATIVE IDENTITY. Karl SIMMS: Introduction. Jonathan RÉE: Subjectivity in the twentieth century. J.W.P. PHILLIPS: The subject of the other: Ordinary language and its enigmatic ground. Robin DURIE: Indication and the awakening of subjectivity. Tim WOODS: The ethical subject: The philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. J.D.D. HUTTO: The story of the self: The narrative basis of self-development. Leigh CLAYTON: The absent signifier: Historical narrative and the abstract subject. S.H. CLARK: Narrative identity in Ricoeur's Oneself as Another. PART II: GENEALOGY, AGENCY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS. Karl SIMMS: Introduction. Lisa PHILLIPS: Wholeness in manifoldness: Conditions of agency in Nietzsche and Foucault. Elaine BALL: Technologies of the self. Jo CROFT: Looking up the adolescent in Freud's index. Wendy WHEELER: Two walks. Patrick QUINN: Being on the boundary: Aquinas' metaphor for subject and psyche. David BROTTMAN: Mrs Bates in Plato's cave: Reflections on the self-reflexive signifying chain linking the cellar to cinema cells within Psycho-tic experience. Xavier MENDIK: Transgressive bodies: Destruction and excessive display of the human form in the horror film. Mikita BROTTMAN: Blue prints and bodies: Paradigms of desire in pornography. Susan WATKINS: Versions of the feminine subject in Charlotte Brontë's Villette. Angus CLEGHORN: And of that other and her desire: The embracing language of Wallace Stevens. Alan RAWES: Lord Byron: To create, and in creating live a being more intense. Jeffrey RODMAN: Defoe and the psychotic subject. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.