Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition by Patricia J Huntington

Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition by Patricia J Huntington

Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition is a study in critical postmodern social theory. By engaging a dialogue with Heidegger, Kristeva, and Irigaray, it offers unique insights into Heidegger's heroic embrace of the manly ethos of National Socialism. Against certain poststructuralist feminist tendencies to throw the baby of intentionality out with the bath water of voluntarism, Huntington interweaves elements of Kristevan and Heideggerian thought in order to reconstruct a linguistically embedded, existentially and affectively rich, dialectical model of willed self-regulation. Pressing Heideggerian ontology into the service of a viable social theory, she argues that this ontology accounts for the utopian impulse in Irigaray's search for a critical poetic reenchantment of the lifeworld and supplies Irigaray with the philosophical foundation for a model of ethical recognition based upon asymmetrical reciprocity.

Patricia J. Huntington is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University in Chicago.

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ISBN 13	9780791438961
ISBN 10	0791438961
Title	Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition
Author	Patricia J Huntington
Series	Suny Series In The Philosophy Of The Social Sciences
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	1998-07-23
Number of pages	383
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