Ethics After Idealism
Author | : Rey Chow |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1998-01-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 0253211557 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780253211552 |
Rating | : 4/5 (552 Downloads) |
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.