Ethics After Idealism

Ethics After Idealism
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 0253211557
ISBN-13 : 9780253211552
Rating : 4/5 (552 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Ethics After Idealism by : Rey Chow

Download or read book Ethics After Idealism written by Rey Chow and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the necessity for a critique of idealism constitutes for Chow an ethics in the postcolonial, postmodern age. In particular, she uses "ethics" to designate the act of making decisions - in this context, decisions of reading - that may not immediately conform with prevalent social mores of idealizing our others but that, nonetheless, enables such others to emerge in their full complexities.


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