Postmodernism and the ethical subject / edited by Barbara Gabriel and Suzan Ilcan.
"This cross-disciplinary study examines questions relating to the complex relationships between ethics, memory, modernity, and post-modernity. The articles gathered here address subjects such as the lingering traces of modernity in postmodern philosophical reflections, the influence of museums...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2004. |
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Table of Contents:
- "Writing against the ruins" : towards a postmodern ethics of memory / Barbara Gabriel
- From modernity to postmodernity / Suzan Ilcan
- On being "the last Kantian in Nazi Germany" : dwelling with animals after Levinas / David L. Clark
- The transject : the ethical subject of postmodernity / Barry Rutland
- Salvador Allende and the construction of a harmless icon : museums and memory / Leandro Urbina
- Commemoration/(de)celebration : super-shows and the decolonization of Canadian museums, 1967-92 / Ruth Phillips
- "Into the heart of Africa" : curatorship, controversy, and situated knowledges / Deborah Burrett
- The unbearable strangeness of being : Edgar Reitz's film-chronicle Heimat / Barbara Gabriel
- Devastation of the hapless structure : architecture and ethics / Phyllis Lambert
- Beyond the frame : ethical encounters and morality in Deleuze's cinematic theory / Daniel O'Connor
- The marginal other : modern figures and ethical dialogues / Suzan Ilcan
- Changing health moralities in the tropics : ethics and the other / Lynne Phillips
- Covering their familiar ways with another culture : Minnie Aodla Freeman's Life among the Qallunaat and the ethics of subjectivity / Bina Freiwald
- "A network of relations" : interdependene [sic] in Bronwen Wallace's talking lyric / Brenda Carr
- Memory, identity, and redemption : notes on the culture of autobiography / Francesco Loriggio.