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Ethics and Resistant Subject: Levinas, Foucault, Marx

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dc.contributor.advisorHorowitz, Asher
dc.creatorSakhi, Shokoufeh
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-15T20:19:44Z
dc.date.available2014-07-15T20:19:44Z
dc.date.copyright2014-03-19
dc.date.issued2014-07-09
dc.date.updated2014-07-09T16:52:43Z
dc.degree.disciplinePolitical Science
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThe present work essays a conception of human subjectivity capable of effective resistance to totalizing systems. The term “effective” distinguishes the absolute resistance of an ethical-subjectivity from the survival resistance of a for-itself subjectivity. It signifies a resistance that itself is neither rendered a new totality, nor assimilated within the old one. Chapters One through Three draw on Emanuel Levinas’s separation between interiority and exteriority, between the I and the other, and on his conceptualization of subjectivity on the ethical plane as being-for-the-other. Through a material phenomenology of sensory deprivation and solitary confinement the human subject is comprehended as a corporeal-sensible being that is rendered a subject in response to exteriority, response that arises from both its (survival) needs for itself and its (ethical) Desire for the other. The second Section, chapters Four and Five, presents immanent critical analyses of the conceptions of the human subject and resistance in Michel Foucault and Karl Marx respectively. These theorists exemplify opposable approaches to the notion of the human subject and subjectivity–and thus to an ethically-based resistance—which help elucidate the limits of the for-itself approach to theorizing effective resistance. Arguing in the last section, chapter Six, that, though occluded, for-the-other subjectivity and effective resistance are to be found in the actual practices of human struggle. A Levinasian interrogation of resistance under torture and prison confinement presents the case for theorizing the subject as primordially an I-in-tension and for the indispensability of the ethical dimension for an effective resistance against totalizing systems.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/27655
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectPolitical Scienceen_US
dc.subjectEthicsen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsAesthetic-selfen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSubjectivityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsResistanceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsEthical responsibilityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsTotalizing systemen_US
dc.subject.keywordsResistant subjecten_US
dc.subject.keywordsEffective resistanceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPrisonen_US
dc.subject.keywordsTortureen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSolitary confinementen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSensory deprivationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMarxen_US
dc.subject.keywordsLevinasen_US
dc.subject.keywordsFoucaulten_US
dc.subject.keywordsTotalityen_US
dc.subject.keywordsCorporeal subjecten_US
dc.subject.keywordsMaterial phenomenologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsIn-itself and for-itselfen_US
dc.subject.keywordsBeing-for-the-otheren_US
dc.subject.keywordsSurvival-egoen_US
dc.subject.keywordsEstranged subjecten_US
dc.titleEthics and Resistant Subject: Levinas, Foucault, Marxen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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